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About George, by Lurline
Here's a trade last for George: He's my idea of a perfect Southern gentleman. I have known very few of them, but he is one, (even if he does claim to be a Yankee.) I am always impressed when I meet someone so at ease with himself and anyone around him.
You remember Kipling's poem If? We had to memorize it in the eighth grade. Mary O'Keefe ( Read more... ) -
George on Sex
George, at age 80, in nearly constant pain, never lost his sense of humor. In intensive care, when the nurse came in to give him a list of do’s and don’t’s to guide his future life, listened intently, but cracked everyone up when she got to the line, ‘No sex for three weeks.’ by shouting in mock outrage, “THREE WEEKS?”
She didn’t react. -
First Kiss
In 1943 at the end of April, Captain Wells, the director of the IBM department men, arranged a picnic for everyone in the office at Tchoutacaboufla, pronounced Shootica Bluff, some twenty miles from Keesler Air Force Base ( Read more... ) -
The Power of One
In a recent weekly Saturday conversation, my daughter S. and I were talking about the power of God in our lives. She told about the historical problem of people fighting wars because of their belief in God, even when their Holy books admonish them not to kill ( Read more... ) -
Foxy
Cl and Ca came by this morning, and while we were sitting at the kitchen table, Cl looked out the sliding doors ( Read more... ) -
I'm Going to Go Eat Worms
The only chocolate worms I've ever seen were in the chocolate chip cookies the boys made in a class at the nature center. They collected, washed, chopped, and included angle worms in the chocolate chip cookies they made for the Mothers to go with their coffee when they picked the kids up ( Read more... ) -
The Hoot Owl and Miss Emily Hit Pandemonium
CAROL told a lie! I don't believe it; but I heard it with my very own two ears! She told a lie! In fact, she WOKE CLYDE UP to do it, too! And my MOMMA told her to ( Read more... ) -
Dale's Word Play
Mom wrote: Many, many years ago, there was a movie called Rains.
Your grandmother Hugus told me that she had gone ?? maybe to the store. When she returned, there was a note from Dale.
The rains came, and we went.
Sighted sub sank same, and all that. -
Bridging the Gaps
Summer time brings to mind many picnics I've attended in my time ( Read more... ) -
Death Is Nothing At All.
Death Is Nothing At All ( Read more... )