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MY FATHER’S DAIRY HERD

When I was five, my father began to accumulate a dairy herd for our farm. The cows were purchased a few at a time from other farms around our county, and brought home by Dad in his stock truck. They were then given names that began with the same letter of the former . . . → Read More: MY FATHER’S DAIRY HERD

A STORY BOOK MARRIAGE: HE’S A PRINCE AND SHE’S CHARMING

Two marriages ─ and going in ─ one could say today’s title was fit for both. We know the outcome of the first. We’ve faith the second will endure.

 

Fourteen years have come and gone, since the world was stunned by Princess Diana’s August 31st, 1997 death. A whole new . . . → Read More: A STORY BOOK MARRIAGE: HE’S A PRINCE AND SHE’S CHARMING

KNOWN AND LITTLE KNOWN MOTHER’S DAY QUOTES

They say that man is mighty,

He governs land and sea,

He wields a mighty scepter

O’er lesser powers that be;

 

But a mightier power and stronger

Man from his throne has hurled

For the hand that rocks the cradle

Is the hand that rules the world

William Ross Wallace, 1819-1881, American poet

 

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RESPONDING TO APRIL’S COMMENTS

April brought many reader’s comments – lovely comments ─ to help dispel April’s chill. I much appreciated the ones that were sincerely written from the heart. For this post, I selected and edited some that best lent themselves to easy/quick replies. Regretfully, time did not allow more than appears here. I thought readers . . . → Read More: RESPONDING TO APRIL’S COMMENTS