by Carole Duff | Sep 23, 2019 | Family, Local or Human Interest, Nature |
“Stand still,” a mom said to her son as she scooched down and positioned her phone camera. Four-year-old Jeremy* waggled his neon blue and lime green backpack while his two-year-old sister crawled on the floor nearby. “Honey, please get up and stand next to your...
by Carole Duff | Sep 9, 2019 | Faith, Family |
It started early this summer. Some of the drop-down features on our online banking site caused the dreaded rainbow ball to spin and a few, rarely-used features didn’t show on my laptop screen. I used Keith’s desktop to do what I needed to do and worked around the...
by Carole Duff | Sep 2, 2019 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
A magician dangled an ice cream cone filled with black raspberry ice cream in front of my face. The cone seemed to move back and forth, up and down, and around at the magician’s command. I searched for evidence of a string or wire connecting the cone to the magician’s...
by Carole Duff | Aug 5, 2019 | Family, Nature |
It was August of ’63, and my family drove to northern Maine to visit family, as usual. We always spent ten days to two weeks in Maine, driving up in summer-weather and returning to fall and school. The summer of ‘63, my father planned a day-hike to climb Mt. Katahdin...
by Carole Duff | Jul 22, 2019 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Family, Nature |
Oh! We’re having a heatwave, a tropical heatwave The temperature’s rising, it isn’t surprising… -From “Heat Wave,” by Irving Berlin Cloudy skies and after-storm breezes cooled the mountain as I walked down the road to the mailbox late Saturday...
by Carole Duff | Jul 8, 2019 | Dogs & Other Creatures, Faith, Family, Nature, Writing and Reading |
By mid-day on Saturday, clouds had darkened to the southeast, and soon we heard rumbles. Heathcliff and Freya retreated to the basement’s safety. Lightning and thunder drew closer. A flash followed immediately by a crash, and the power went out. Our whole-house...
