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A One-Word Resolution

A One-Word Resolution

The greeting, “Happy New Year,” will be said and heard for at least the first couple of weeks in January as a new year gets under way. …

A New Year’s Poem

A New Year’s Poem

The following is a short poem mailed to me years ago and I seem to see it when I’m checking off my Christmas card list of those…

My Present to You

My Present to You

Thank you, my readers, for your kind words of encouragement and wonderful compliments on my continuing articles.  I would like to close 2019 with my present to…

Little Known Christmas Stories

Little Known Christmas Stories

The UNKNOWN REIDNEER: A game show contestant was only 200 points behind the leader and about to answer the final question, worth 500 points! “To be today’s…

Dinner Invitation from Grandma

Dinner Invitation from Grandma

This reporter gets requests every Thanksgiving for the dinner invitation from a grandmother to her family and I aim to oblige since I’m a great-grandmother of four…

Voting Privileges

Voting Privileges

This past Tuesday was an Election Day in our state of Virginia.  Did you do your civic duty and go to the polls to vote or had…

Thanks to All!

Thanks to All!

Friends, citizens, countrymen, lend me your ears!  Do you ever stop to think about this wonderful Virginia county of Charlotte in which we reside?  The past few…

Trouble With a Capital “T”

Trouble With a Capital “T”

A Washington, D.C. airport ticket agent offers some examples of why our country is in BIG TROUBLE!  The following are the things that were asked by some…

Ouch, It Hurts!

Ouch, It Hurts!

About three weeks ago, after this reporter swept her porch and front walk, she spied tall thin stalks of grass mingled in with one of the liriopes…

Goodbye Hummers

Goodbye Hummers

This household has been feeding the hummingbirds since their arrival in April.  This reporter keeps a calendar record of each year’s date and it’s pretty accurate.  …