February 2024

Bread. It has long been the center of our lives for centuries. Did it all start Biblically? I mean, the Lord’s Prayer makes a clear request.” “Give us this day our daily bread.” (Matthew 6:11) But it appears Matt was a little willy-nilly on this. A few verses earlier, he wrote: “Man shall not live […]

I love Al. Albert Einstein. Albert was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire, on March 14, 1879. I have people from that same area. I am wondering if some of my people knew his people. Anyway, his parents were Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer, and Pauline Koch, also

Those Mistakes By Linda Stowe Sometimes when I think about my youthful self, a shard of memory will remind me that I didn’t always make the best choices back then. Those mistakes and moments of shame might make me wince but overall, those experiences worked to make me a better person. Granted, my memory isn’t

The first Star Wars film was magic. I can remember watching it at the theater in the Salem Mall. Four of us went. My best friend Theresa, her boyfriend Tommy, and my boyfriend Tom. We were all mesmerized by the movie. Taken. Knocked off our feet. Walking out of the building, the four of us

I’ve mentioned it before, but I don’t read a daily horoscope. My mom used to like to read hers every day. In her late years, she could no longer care for herself because of dementia. So we moved her into the Greenbriar Nursing Facility near me. I went to see her every day, with a

We’ve had a few dogs over the years, I’ll tell you. And we’ve had a few TVs. All of them have been different, each with their own personality.Both the dogs and the TVs. In recent years, I’d say Samsung far outreaches any other TV brand.As for dogs, each one outreaches all the others in its

The Old Woman By Linda Stowe I am the old woman who sits at her window and watches the world go by. There have been many stories written about that old trope, the story of the watcher. There she sits, phone by her side, ready to grope for the binoculars for a closer look. The

I always say I won the lottery when it came to my parents. I had a couple of good ones. I can not imagine growing up in a better home. They were loving to one another and loving to us kids. All seven of us. But we had rules. Maybe even a lot of rules.