Sometimes life teaches profound lessons, sometimes a deep truth, sometimes dark, sometimes light. sometimes not so much.   Today’s lesson? Always secure the lid of your grinder when grinding nuts because ground nuts are hard to get out of your hair and off the ceiling, walls, floor, and cupboards ( how does it get in the […]

So 1009 said  “You should write a blog” So I am going to try and tell the story of a 72 year old man in Hellesdon near Norwich in Norfolk UK. It will not be exciting but I hope it will help people from other parts of the world how it is to live in […]

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her […]

‘Stinkerbell’ is a take on my family nickname ‘Tinkerbell’.  My mother said when I was born, I looked just like a fairy ✨ As I grew, my nickname was shortened to ‘Tinker’ and only by my two older brothers as ‘Tink’ and sometimes ‘Sis’.  Absolutely no one outside my family is allowed to call me […]

Friends, this is Tex Ritter with a strange story about a soldier boy and a deck of cards During a North African campaign a bunch of soldier boys had been on a long hike, and they arrived in a little town called Casino.” The next morning being Sunday several of the boys went to church. […]

When I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember well the polished old case fastened to the wall. The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box. I was too little to reach the telephone, but used to listen with fascination when my mother used […]

Red roses were her favorites, her name was also Rose. And every year her husband sent them, tied with pretty bows. The year he died, the roses were delivered to her door. The card said, “Be my Valentine,” like all the years before. Each year he sent her roses, and the note would always say, […]

If you think you are beaten you are!! If you dare not you don’t!! If you like to win but you think you can’t It’s almost a cinch that you won’t !! If you think you’ll lose your lost!! For out in the world we find Success begins with a fellows will!! It’s all in […]

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn to not judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the […]

Here is an amazing story from a flight attendant on Delta Flight 15, written following 9-11 On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, we were about 5 hours out of Frankfurt, flying over the North Atlantic . All of a sudden the curtains parted and I was told to go to the cockpit, immediately, to […]