Lavender harvest season upon us
Last summer I made the difficult decision not to perpetuate my lovely, fenced-in vegetable...
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Trade ya a Mantle for a Kaline
In the summer of 1957, my cousin, John Liblong, and I went to Weaver’s dime store in Almont and each bought...
Two cats in training
Before my youngest daughter's visit from California this past June, she'd witnessed my gradually thinning figure since our beloved patriarch's...
The other Charters of Freedom
I recently wrote about the Declaration of Independence being on display in the rotunda of the National Archives here in Washington. I hope you will be able to visit and...
A friend always
Marilyn, a friend from our graduating class of 1967, phoned this morning. With the few graduation parties I’ve attended this month, Warren Lincoln High School, our ...
“We hold these truths to be self-evident”
Historian and author, Walter Isaacson, calls it the greatest sentence ever written. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Thomas Jefferson wrote...
Love in purple gloves
I have never seen someone clean so carefully and thoroughly. Normally, when we clean, we wipe what we see, straighten a few things that are crooked, and move on. Not this...
Tenacious foxgloves
My solitary, pink foxglove nods in the wind this most blustery,...
Perspective on America’s 250th birthday
As we all remember from history class, on July 4, 1776 the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration...
Trade ya a Mantle for a Kaline
In the summer of 1957, my cousin, John Liblong, and I went to Weaver’s dime store in Almont and each bought...
Two cats in training
Before my youngest daughter's visit from California this past June, she'd witnessed my gradually thinning figure since our beloved patriarch's...
The other Charters of Freedom
I recently wrote about the Declaration of Independence being on display in the rotunda of the National Archives here in Washington. I hope you will be able to visit and...
A friend always
Marilyn, a friend from our graduating class of 1967, phoned this morning. With the few graduation parties I’ve attended this month, Warren Lincoln High School, our ...
“We hold these truths to be self-evident”
Historian and author, Walter Isaacson, calls it the greatest sentence ever written. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Thomas Jefferson wrote...
Love in purple gloves
I have never seen someone clean so carefully and thoroughly. Normally, when we clean, we wipe what we see, straighten a few things that are crooked, and move on. Not this...
Tenacious foxgloves
My solitary, pink foxglove nods in the wind this most blustery,...
Perspective on America’s 250th birthday
As we all remember from history class, on July 4, 1776 the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration...