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Endearing Faces

My granddaughter is looking me in the eye at the moment with such a look of endearing entreaty, I fear I cannot spend but a few moments...

How Did We Get the Wings to Fly?

Do you remember last week that I asked you if you ever wished you could fly? And if you could, where would you go? Would you visit a dear...

If We Had Wings to Fly

Do you ever wish you could fly? Where would you go? To the top of the tallest mountain? Or would you fly until you found the perfect...

Cue The Memory (The Science Behind Memories)

Since we’ve been on the topic of memories the past few weeks, I thought we could top it off with a logical look at how it all works in...

Making Memories Breath

Have you ever put yourself in your ancestors’ shoes and tried to imagine what they lived through, or how they reacted in certain stories...

How Tall is Too Tall?

With the infiltration of the computerized age, photos are seldom being printed, people are storing many of their necessary tracking data...

The Soul in Photos

While we’re on the subject of cameras and photography (from last week’s blog) I also love the joy of accidentally capturing a perfect...

Keeping Memories Alive

My parents didn’t have much money for cameras or developing film, so we don’t have nearly the pictures I’d like to reminisce over our...

Barreling Down Tracks

The sound of a train thundering on its tracks puts me back in my teenage bedroom at night, listening to the familiar, powerful rumble and...

Raising Them to Fly

How many of you out there have kicked yourself (mentally, of course) because your kid/s did something really cute or funny that was so...

Freedom’s Perilous Cost

Before I begin my blog on Memorial Day, I must say that the war has changed. The war victims that we will be mourning this weekend, and...

Escaping Catastrophe – an Outhouse Mentality

Who’s got pain today? Misery? Agony, despair…? (Doesn’t that sound like a song? It’s got to be a song…see my blog, “Rainbows on...

Living History

I used to think about the amazing changes my grandparents lived through from horse buggies to automobiles, no electricity to computers,...

A Child’s Perspective – Lost

Have you ever had the chance to walk through a home that you lived in as a child? Did it seem much smaller to you in your adult shoes?...

The Symbols of Easter

Easter. I couldn’t let it go by without typing something up on it. While it is undoubtably a Christian holiday, we now know that some of...

Our Mighty Mac

I love bridges; mostly the kind that creates ways to “bridge” our relationships to better understanding and love, but I’m on a...

The Golden Bridge – or Is It?

When searching for last week’s picture, I came across some photos we had taken of the Golden Gate Bridge in California. Seeing them made...

The Essence: Mighty or Meek

With the seasons in a transitioning period again, from cold to warm and before you know it onto hot, it seemed a good time to throw some...

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