Nuggets

Amy, my daughter in San Diego, a very busy bi-lingual BSN Senior Case Manager and a Blue Ribbon Award winning quilter extraordinaire, has created a wonderful quilt for me to wrap up in when I […]

Lately I have noticed that people have changed their manner of greeting me when I walk up to them at a yard sale or such. Over the years I have become accustomed to greetings like […]

Just the other day I asked myself, “What do you want to be when you grow up, Art?”  Here I am almost 90 and I still don’t have a good answer to that question. I […]

I visited the Poet’s Walk and what a joy it was for me last Tuesday. 14 students with a counselor from an Academy here in Hillsborough came strolling  down the walk and with permission I […]

As I was thinking about what I was about to write I caught myself staring at the wall beside my computer but seeing nothing. Just staring into space, searching for a creative spark, sort of, […]

Are you staying home as you read this because of the coronavirus? Well for folks married or otherwise this can be quite a challenge. It might be quite a strain. I’ve read that the sales […]

Many years ago it used to tick me off when watching the Johnny Carson Show.  Ed McMahon, the M.C., would say “Now  H – e – r – e  ‘ s Johnny!” and the audience […]

Where were you on December 7th, 1941? Now I realize that most of our readers were not born until years later. Me, I had been in downtown Detroit at the legendary Paradise Theatre being enchanted […]

What I bought: A precious little porcelain doll dressed in a pretty dress and seated in an aged wooden snow sled, a tiny classic car set, a little stuffed pillow saying “You’re A Very Special Neighbor” […]

On the morning of February 14th, 1961 I became a writer. First thing, I answered a want ad offering a used Underwood typewriter for sale. I drove about a mile from my home to a […]