( Especially for my Granddaughters ) I have never discovered a single thing that could qualify for Antiques Roadshow but I have stumbled across a multitude of interesting things at bargain prices. It has been about ten years since I started prowling thrift stores in earnest and I still spend …
journal entry: I change things around. If my changes run too deep, Grandpa is frustrated because he can’t find things. He prefers to put something somewhere and leave it there forever. That way, he never has to wonder where it is. Today, I am talking about changing home decor to …
Literature and Illustration for Children and Adolescents Elsewhere on this blog is a post about my Children’s Book Collection. This post will select several books from that collection which are my favorites. I often read adolescent literature in between more difficult-to-read-and-remember books. Since I don’t have children at home any …
Introduction to Part Four. Here is list number four. As time passes, I will add comments to many of the books. Tom has been the one who has prodded me to make these lists so that I will remember the important things I have learned from my lifetime of reading. …
Here is Part Three of Five Parts. These five lists constitute my Book List. They are the results of my effort to remember what I have read, what I have liked and what I have not enjoyed reading and why. I frequently read fiction as a diversion from the difficulty …
A not-for-everyone list of some books I have read and enjoyed, read and loved and even read and disliked. I do not, for one minute, suggest my list to anyone because it is tailored to ME, by me and for me in a completely self-serving way and since you are …
WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY ? How about a quick little post that has no purpose other than to be bright and happy? I will tell you right now that my sun-filled work space is like Heaven-on-Earth to me. You who love it too, already know that about me. I would …
Not everything I find in a thrift store is a treasure. Most things are just interesting things that someone else has grown tired of looking at and I have found to be just the thing for me to look at until I am tired of looking at the thing and …
Family Gathering 2019 History of Family Gathering Dress-Ups For the past five years, we have dressed-up. The girls love to assume different personas and the boys like to have swords and hatchets and the horned helmets of Vikings. The boys always end up staging pretend fights, especially with animals if …
It meant nothing to me. It was just a whimsical hat with a label I did not appreciate. I actually wondered why a perfectly nice flowered hat would have such a bright red label with the word Supreme on it when it would have been quite nice without it. Here …
