Shared by Carla It’s About The People These days I find that I don’t bother to read the colorful ads in the Sunday newspaper. I also don’t have the desire to wander through the mall or the fancy furniture stores to see what lovely things they have that I may want. When I was a …
Category Archives: Monday Pick ME Up
The Terror Barrier
“Shared by Carla” The first ten years of my stay here on Planet Earth were spent in Owen Sound, Ontario. I can vividly remember the hot summer day I was taken by an older member of my family to Harrison Park where there was a fine swimming pool. The older kids were going up the …
The Baggy Yellow Shirt
“Shared By Carla” The baggy yellow shirt had long sleeves, four extra-large pockets trimmed in black thread and snaps up the front. It was faded from years of wear, but still in decent shape. I found it in 1963 when I was home from college on Christmas break, rummaging through bags of clothes Mom intended …
The Three Requisites
“Shared By Carla” Sometime today or tomorrow or next month, in practically every commercial office and manufacturing plant in the world, an important executive will sit back in his or her chair and study a list of names on a sheet of white paper. Your name may be on it. A position of responsibility is …
Uncle Earl
“Shared by Carla” “Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.” Joseph Addison, The Spectator Annually my husband’s family has a reunion in a state park in the mountains of North Carolina. At one of the reunions, the weather was overcast, and more rain …