McGuffey’s New Third Eclectic Reader Don’t Quit When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must,…
Holiday’s
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•Annaka’s Vision Fall Village 2.0 There are many reasons why people create miniature worlds; there is a marvel to the activity that truly thrills the soul. As I have already written about, on these pages, the Christmas Village began during Kate and my first Christmas together, in 1987, in Long Beach, California. I…
A View from the Road
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•In Nature
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•Public Square
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•Faith Bradford’s Gift to You and Me “The scale of this twenty-three-room house is one inch to one foot, accommodating the miniature furniture that Faith Bradford (1880-1970) played with as a girl and collected as an adult. She imagined the dwelling as the turn-of-the 20th-century household of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Doll, their ten…
Poet’s Cornor
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•I Do not want to Forget to be Thankful do you forget to be thankful I know it happens unintentionally I am certain but somehow thankful gets overwhelmed by sorrow or desire or even need real or imagined is inconsequential when overlooking thankfulness our focus changes instead of seeing our blessings we only…
Food – Cooking with Children
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•Art
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•Holiday’s
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•Veterans Day “In the most solemn, purposeful procession to thread the canyon of Broadway in a generation, 15,000 veterans of the World war yesterday marched, with their auxiliaries, in the 23rd annual Armistice Day parade. Solemn, for the truce that was signed in the Forest of Compiegne 23 years ago was frittered away at…
In the Wild!
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•Yes, Turkeys in November, Again On a rainy, dreary day, the turkeys came looking for a bite to eat, that they appear to need. As they wandered around the yard, they lifted my spirits; as nature does. They changed my focus from the overcast skies to the still colored landscape, which they so perfectly…