Here we are only six days away from Christmas. Sights, smells, and sounds of the holiday abound and are intermixed with good cheer and kind gestures. This evening I would like to share three parts of the magical recipe I have encountered this week that have brought me joy. The first part is one I [...]
Tag: Elmwood Park
You light up my life…
I love seeing all the lights on the trees and the houses this time of year. I particularly love the Elmwood Park area on 13th Avenue with the lights on the trees. Every year the West Fargo Park District does a little more than they did the year before and every year I am thrilled [...]
Odds and ends…1000 words or less.
The clean slate of the new year has already faded. As I was traveling home from dropping Cheyenne off from school a hundred odds and ends that have skittered to the outside of my life or my consciousness flooded my brain - and then the turkeys crossed Sheyenne Street. The good news is, they ran. They ran [...]
Who is the turkey?
My Aunt Rosie used to always say, "Don't let the turkeys get you down!" By turkeys she meant the dumb people who crossed my path or who impeded my progress. I guess a turkey league somewhere cried foul (or is that fowl?) to such defamation, but the message stuck with me - dumb = turkey, turkey=dumb. [...]
THE NEW FORTY 