2024

The world goes around and around.The days spin by. So do the years.Every spin brings another. And with that, we have happenings. Things. Occurrences. Days we like to remember, and days we’d rather forget. This is the day that my dad died. Eleven years ago. How can some woman who is my age still miss […]

March is “Love Your Chicken Month.” Well. Not really. But if chickens had a month, March would be it. They start giving slightly better eggs in the Spring. And by Summer, their eggs are back to be full-tilt yolky delights. All that aside, a lot of people really do love their chickens. They cuddle them

Memory By Linda Stowe At least once a week my brother and I talk about our childhood memories. Sometimes we share funny stories but most often we have questions. Questions for which we will never have answers because all the people who had the answers are gone. It’s down to just us and a smattering

Oh. Sorry. I’m back now. I drifted off there for a minute. You see, I just read an article that said this: On average, the human mind wanders about 30% of the time. As I did some further poking around, the average of these “studies” falls in the range of 30% to 50% of the

I just can’t get over myself on this one. I like a good haunting, dang it. Maybe it is because our house on Bruce Avenue may have had an extra spirit poking around while we were growing up. It sure seemed like it to us. Or maybe it was my love of the film “The

Gullible. Now, that’s something to think about. Isn’t it? I imagine all of us have been gullible in our lives. That time when someone really put one over on us. And we said, “Really?” Only to see them react in laughter. When humans are gullible, we are easily persuaded to believe something that isn’t true.

We all love to laugh, I think. Laughter has proven to be good for humans. Numerous studies have found that it reduces our stress levels, and boost our immunity. Laughing can also improve our physical health, among other things. I love the scene in Mary Poppins with the “I Love To Laugh” song, where they

We humans think a lot of ourselves, it seems. Many of us believe we are the most important beings in the Universe. The top of the food chain, and such. But we’re too big for our britches, in my limited opinion.There are many things that we thought made us uniquely human. But wait. We’re not