Footlights Nursery…
Footlights Nursery…
/ September 18, 2023 0 COMMENTS
Footlights officially has three bedrooms, it’s on the Zillow description. But ...
My Prayer…
My Prayer…
/ February 11, 2013 0 COMMENTS
We say we will pray for people. It has become a platitude, “I’m praying for you…” If you don’t pray regularly, how can you say you’ll pray ...
Perripoppins…
Perripoppins…
/ February 7, 2013 0 COMMENTS
I had two boys, delightful specimens of mankind, surprises each, entering the world with a scream and, “It’s a boy!” The third time I wanted no surprises.  During my ...
Word Oopses…
/ February 4, 2013 0 COMMENTS
We are painting the inside of our house. Remodelling they call it here but to me re-modelling means taking something apart and putting it back together again. Painting walls is called ...
Turning Twenty-One…
Turning Twenty-One…
/ January 29, 2013 0 COMMENTS
Daughts is now at that legal age where she can do anything without parental consent. Just because she has attained the grand old number of twenty-one doesn’t mean that with it ...
Twenty-First…
/ January 2, 2013 0 COMMENTS
Twenty-one years ago today the final member of our family arrived amid the peaches and cream complexion that comes with a planned C-section.  She was a pretty flawless baby too! With my ...
Questions That Keep on Asking…
Questions That Keep on Asking…
/ December 24, 2012 0 COMMENTS
My film maker son is really good at asking questions. Alone with him in a car, train or kitchen, as a toddler or teen, a steady slew of phrases requiring answers would slip from his ...
Friday 14th 2012…
Friday 14th 2012…
/ December 18, 2012 0 COMMENTS
(Photo credit: HSLDA Facebook) It takes time for me to fully process events. Hence my silence on what happened last Friday. I gave up reading National news years ago when everything was ...
A Squirrel Came-a-Knocking…
A Squirrel Came-a-Knocking…
/ December 17, 2012 0 COMMENTS
I heard a scrabbling behind me in my office. I ignored it.  We live on a creek and the back forty is always spewing up critters from the undergrowth. The scrabbling became frantic. ...
Chihuly Nights…
Chihuly Nights…
/ December 11, 2012 0 COMMENTS
My friend and I visited the Arboretum to see Dale Chihuly’s magnificent glass display one afternoon. On the strength of that excursion I bought tickets for the show for the rest ...
Pumpkin Woes…
Pumpkin Woes…
/ December 3, 2012 0 COMMENTS
When they were young the children wanted to carve pumpkins. As a Brit I had not been brought up in the halloween culture so gracing the front step with a carved pumpkin or two was not ...