What a Day

Today’s blog is more to let my “blog” family know that I have not abandoned blogging, I am going to share a letter—a bit revised—I first sent to my beloved youngest and only sister. There once were four of us. Without further ado, I give you …
Happy Midmorning Thanksgiving Day, [...]

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Thanksgiving Every Day

THANKSGIVING
Mary A. Gallagher Kaufman
From too much love of living; from hope and fear set free,
we thank with brief thanksgiving whatever gods may be . . .
so wrote Swinburne, poet, he,
some of my favorite poetry.
I’d like to take those words he wrote
and add my own unto the quote.
I thank whatever gods abide
in this world or those [...]

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One Day At A Time

I suppose it has something to do with old age that finds me glancing over the obituary columns every morning … right after the news, the opinion pages, Dear Abby, Dr. Gott, Dr. Donahue, and the comics. I do so on the pretense I’m merely checking to see if or not I recognize someone I might [...]

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A Christmas Rarity, Fruit Cake Worth the Eating.

Show me the housewife and mother who does like to brag about a Christmas treat that she is under the impression that she, and she alone serves her family, and I’ll show you a housewife just a wee bit lacking in what I think of helps to make Christmas just a wee bit merrier. So it was [...]

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Just Plumb Weary

How does one regain motivation in anything once inertia has taken root? Well, perhaps in my case, coming to a decision of any kind just might prove to be, for me, the answer. One of the first items on my late husbands agenda once we located in Port St. Lucie, Florida, was to enroll both of [...]

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