Our niece came to visit this weekend. She was the first! My first niece, the first grandchild….And, there was a brief time, back when she was very small and I was much younger and unmarried, when she almost lived in my back pocket. We would take rides in my TR Spitfire, top down, her little…
Category: Musing
WITNESS
No, not the movie, although it was good. I recently completed a deposition for a lawsuit. The attorney we are working with said, “Just witness. Don’t defend or explain.” Ah, sort of like Queen Elizabeth II. A very middle of the road keeping type of advice. Offend no one. The idea is that witnessing is…
PRACTICE
When our girls were very small, going on their first trick or treat run around the neighborhood we ‘practiced’ in the mudroom. One would knock on the inside door and say, ‘trick or treat’. I’d open the door greeting them. Then we’d try again. We ended the session when Bayley knocked on the door and…
RARE EARTH
Today is the atumnal equinox. Say it–ah TUM nal… kinda rolls off the tongue. …when the Sun is exactly above the Equator, this year cacluated to be at 8:04 pm, EDT, and day and night are of equal length. Today the sun begins the journey south to mark the winter solstice, the shortest day of the…