Taking Time for a Child
Oops! Yesterday morning I realized that I didn’t explain the framed “Charles” above the calendar in this photo that I included in Long Days, Short Years. When I was a girl, I saw an embroidered fabric name patch like that…
Oops! Yesterday morning I realized that I didn’t explain the framed “Charles” above the calendar in this photo that I included in Long Days, Short Years. When I was a girl, I saw an embroidered fabric name patch like that…
Children are excited when they learn their first few words. They love to practice them over and over. Two of our youngest grandson’s favorite words these days are mower and broke. On a walk with his Notty and Little one…
On Friday I was fascinated while searching for photos that illustrate waiting. I was overwhelmed by the thousands of pictures in the holdings of the Library of Congress that have the word wait in the title. This one was particularly…
When two well-mannered adults arrive at a door at the same time, one or both will often speak or make a gesture that tells the other person: “You first.” Longtime friends of ours recently enjoyed two weeks of vacation with…
When my close friend Terry complimented my hair recently, I immediately began telling her that I didn’t like how it looked that day. I later realized that I should have smiled and said a hearty “Thank you.” Though I didn’t…
While Ray and I were visiting our younger daughter and her family at their house recently, our four-year-old grandson asked me to come and see the “tractor” he had made from two fat plastic baseball bats and a bench. He…