Monthly Archives: February 2018

Tuesday, February 27, 2018 Today I am grateful for things I will never be fined for.  I wear reading glasses. . .to read.  That’s the only time.  I don’t need glasses for distance so bifocals would be a senseless purchase.  … Continue reading →

Monday, February 26, 2018 Today I am grateful for impatient cheapskate painting.  Ever have one of those days?  Yeah, me, too.  I have a painting called “40 Shades of Green”, that I painted for Himself in 1979, long before we … Continue reading →

Saturday, February 24, 2018 Today I am grateful for family pictures.  My new refrigerator is not magnetized so I can’t cover it with family pictures like I used to, so I had to stick them in frames and hang them … Continue reading →

Thursday, February 22, 2018 Today I am grateful for activists.  I bet you thought after I posted the great piece by Dan May yesterday that I was now going to shut up and stop rendering my opinion.  Ha-ha.  Nope.  The … Continue reading →

Wednesday, February 21, 2018 Today I am grateful for a guest columnist.  I have been thinking about a commitment I made to myself to no longer share any posts that “prove” my point on various issues, based on how the … Continue reading →

Monday, February 19, 2018 Today I am grateful for bubbles.  I feel almost as passionately about bubbles as I do coloring.  If I could color and blow bubbles without slopping up my coloring page, that is exactly what I’d do … Continue reading →

Sunday, February 18, 2018 Today I am grateful for the leadership of children.  I have been so devastated by the latest recent shooting of children in Florida that I have had to limit my viewing and listening in order to … Continue reading →

Friday, February 16, 2018 Today I am grateful for Pavlov’s Mary.  I’m sure you remember the old scientist who proved that dogs could be conditioned to ring a bell for the reward of a treat.  Eventually they would drool every … Continue reading →

Thursday, February 15, 2018 Today I am grateful for an articulate young man.  He was part of the massive shooting in Florida and said, “We can’t let this become normal.  We have to stop this.”  Yes, we do.  We’ve needed … Continue reading →

Wednesday, February 14, 2018 Today I am grateful for simple gifts.  Valentine’s Day is not my favorite Hallmark holiday.  And it really never has been, not even when I was younger and newly in love.  I prefer when someone calls … Continue reading →