The Joy of Reading

Books are the ships that have taken me millions of miles, thousands of places and hundreds of years thru history!
I lived in a beautiful, peaceful and secure little world in my youth. You may have considered it very local and limited to that hillside home in Georgia but my Mother had set the vast physical [...]

January 19 - Birthday of a great American – General Robert E. Lee

When I was growing up in Georgia, January 19 was a state holiday in honor of the birthday of General Robert E. Lee. And back in what my children call ‘olden days’ every school day started off with the teacher and the students standing at attention, hand over our heart and repeating the pledge [...]

Harriet’s new dialysis clinic

JERRI - HARRIET - DONNA
I asked Harriet not to fix her hair and leave off her make-up this morning because I wanted to get a picture at her new clinic. My sweetheart is such a beautiful lady and keeps herself looking so nice that folks won’t believe she has ESRD (end stage renal disease -kidney [...]

STILL LOVE THE PACKERS!

Harriet and I just finished watching the Green Bay Packers put away the Seahawks in a snow storm. The first time we watched the Pack was our first date. Vince Lombardi, Bart Starr and the rest of that fabled team played the Washington Redskins in Columbus, GA. It was August, a preseason game [...]

Rotten old flu – beautiful new clinic

Did you take a flu shot? Harriet and I both had ours and so far we have a 50/50 success rate. I’ve stayed healthy and Harriet has SUFFERED with the nasty bug. Her doctor immediately put her on a prescription medicine on Wednesday. When we got home on Friday morning, [...]

Proper Perspective

I’m about fed up with hearing this Circus called the Iowa Caucus! It is a sideshow production of the news-creating media even more than the political parties themselves. Look at the size of this bantam state! IOWA ranks only 26th in size and 30th in population. And when this cabaret is [...]