Listen to the Rain Have You Ever Listened To The Rain? Have you memorized the sound of it as it pours down on the streets and the roofs and the leaves and the grass? Now it is a sunny day and for all the world it looks like summer, feels like summer, smells like summer, yet it won’t… Read More »
Dare to Imagine – Dare to Dream Everything I was meant to be I am and you can surely see That I am in reality All I am supposed to be. I am nothing more and nothing less Than I am willing to confess. In the hands of time, I ride Until they say, “He finally… Read More »
Close but No Cigar: My Defense of Cliches Some people mistakenly think cliches are so overused that they lose their original meaning or impact. They think only a bad writer would resort to using a bunch of cliches. Some think wannabe writers who use cliches are lazy, boring, or unimaginative. But today, I come to praise cliches,… Read More »
Beautiful Morning I see some children waiting for the school bus… It is such a beautiful morning, and the children look so happy. It makes me pause for a moment and remember a time in my life when I was a child and I waited for the school bus on a spring day just like this.… Read More »
The Granite Point Lighthouse By 1895, Gordon McDaniels had been the keeper of Granite Point Light for 42 years. He married his childhood sweetheart Penny in 1854 during his first full year as keeper of the lighthouse and the lighthouse had been their home and their life. Gordon took great pride in his daily tasks of keeping… Read More »
Daylight Saving Time- Playing with Clocks I just learned this year that calling Daylight Saving Time, “Daylight Savings Time”, with an S is, incorrect. They say it makes me look like an idiot to everyone who’s in the know. Look here: “Daylight Savings Time is a misspelling, but more common than the correct term. Setting our clocks 1… Read More »