It may seem trite but is absolutely true. Life is made up of moments. Moments make memories. Memories stay. If we help them. That is why I love to make tiny tales. Sometimes a tiny tale is just a few photographs. Put together to cement a moment in time. Like …
“A cousin is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.” -Unknown- Most people have cousins. Most of the people I know have lots of cousins. I have about 40 cousins. Some are older than I and some are younger. Most are within a few years of my …
“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now, in October.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne- journal entry: Grandpa likes to wait for help. This kind of help. He thinks that harvesting from the garden or the …
Q. What do you give a 900 pound gorilla for his birthday? A. I don’t know. But you better hope that he likes it ! journal entry: George is turning two. He happened to be visiting Grandma with his family for the week-end. George doesn’t live where Grandma lives. …
journal entry: I wonder what little children think when suddenly food is outside . . . is on the ground and under the ground. When apples literally fall from the trees? Autumn is the most wonderful time of the year for children. They can eat things they pick themselves. They …
“Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.” – Leo Buscaglia – journal entry: I am a happy grandmother when it comes to the parents of my grandchildren. They are easy-going parents who share my feelings about most things. If we don’t see eye-to-eye on some matter …
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson- journal entry: Who knows what a child will remember? What do I remember? What do you remember about being a child, asking a question and getting an answer? What is it about …
