Chapter 14 Miss Georgia stared in the direction Abigail was pointing. Moonlight glinted off an object in the woods. Squinting and straining to see, Miss Georgia could make out the shape of someone else standing among the trees. At that moment, one of the diggers gave a muffled shout. “I’ve found it!” He dropped […]
Jan 15, 2021
The Cure for Worrying
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Peace and harmony are not always the order of the day and you and I can find many things and people to worry about, without even trying. Those worries just seem to come flocking, with no invitation at all. So, what do we do as an antidote? Constant worry is not a happy state of […]
Dec 31, 2020
Oh, oh. See Spot.
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Where would I have been without them? Dick and Jane, Baby Sally, Spot, Puff, Mother and Father–they people the paper back books of my first readers and I remember them fondly. They were good friends. “Oh, oh. See Spot. See Puff. Oh, oh.” Such simple little sentences, but leading on to other, bigger, greater things–the […]
Nov 22, 2020
A Safe Place
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There are times for everyone when we need some place to be that is safe and lets us escape from reality for just a bit. It’s a place we can depend on, always at hand and easy to reach, where we can settle in and take a short break from stress or worry of any […]
Nov 19, 2020
A-One and A-Two, And…
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Nothing dates a person like her repertoire of songs. My repertoire is a rusty, dusty, relic of a long ago yesterday. In my school days, both as a student and as a teacher, we began the day with singing, the Flag Salute, and the Lord’s Prayer. At Valley Center, one of the best elementary schools […]
Nov 2, 2020
November Wind
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Ned McNeil usually didn’t mind living alone in the Victorian house she had inherited from her uncle. Alone, that is, except for a small gray cat called Penny. But, there was no denying that the old home place in which she lived, the place called Granger Mansion, held some secrets of its own. After all, […]
