“Climb up my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door and we’ll be friends forevermore.” So went one of the first songs I learned as a small child. Another song was Tex Ritter’s Walkin’ the Floor Over You. But that’s neither here nor there. Yesterday when I was at Matt and Dawn’s house, she said, […]
Sep 17, 2015
We the People
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“We the people.” So begins our United States Constitution. This is the day we celebrate that document which is the basis of our Republic. It was written in 1787 and ratified in 1788. It has served us well since 1789 and proclaims that the government exists to serve the people; not the people to serve […]
Sep 11, 2015
Early, Dark, Rainy
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This morning, a loud crash above my head woke me. My eyes popped open. Thunder! Being wide awake, I felt sure it was time to get up so I padded into the kitchen and put on the coffee. Then I glanced at the clock. Oh, my goodness! It was only wee, small hours with dawn […]
Sep 7, 2015
Prowling Through a Dark House
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Sometimes sleep is a contest, a real honest to goodness struggle. Hard to come by. I doze off on the sofa, wake up and see it’s way past my bedtime, stagger back to bed and pop! My eyes are as wide open as an owl’s and I can no more go to sleep than I […]
Aug 29, 2015
Books, Mushrooms, and Other Stuff
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My house is awash in books! Honestly. Just take a look a these pictures and that’s not counting the books in the bedrooms and stored away because I don’t have enough bookshelves. I guess you could say I am book poor. Another way of looking at it is that I’m book rich. Whichever, I’m glad […]
Aug 21, 2015
One of a Kind
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William McKinley was President when my dad, Robert Bryan Day, was born. People got from place to place by train or horse and wagon or riding horseback or they walked. At least, that was true of the Day family in rural Arkansas. Dad saw many, many changes during his eighty-eight years on this earth, from […]
