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Credit Cards. We can use them at almost any place of business now.  Fast food restaurants take credit cards.  Every retail store takes credit cards.  Even Redbox® movie kiosk takes credit cards. They are easy to use.  They are handy to carry.  No need to ever carry...

Freshly cut grass. Corn stalks. Cinnamon pinecones. Vanilla candle. Apple pie baking. Laundry from the clothes line. Bleach. Baby powder. We smell these things and associate them with some type of emotion or event or season in our lives. Freshly cut grass may remind...

Chocolate. Peppermint. Cajun. Salt. Lemon. Vinegar. Jalapeno. Caramel. When you read these words I would be willing to bet that your mouth starts to water on the thought of at least ONE word.  Your tongue can virtually taste as you read.  Gooey chocolate fudge...

The Old Violin The Touch of the Masters Hand by Myra Brooks Welch 'Twas battered and scarred, And the auctioneer thought it hardly worth his while To waste his time on the old violin, but he held it up with a smile. "What am I bid, good people", he cried, "Who starts...

Our electricity was turned off yesterday for several hours as they were working on some things at our house. I was running errands for what I thought was going to be the time we would be without power. But when I got home we still had no electricity. It was so quiet...

After writing my last blog about “Pappy” slowing down and taking in the sights, I began thinking about all of our senses and how we are so busy we just don’t enjoy life the way we should. This morning I decided to turn off the radio, not talk on the cell phone and...

A friend was telling me a story of how she and her family took their grandfather to a baseball game at a stadium he had not been to in decades.  It was a milestone birthday for him and he had always wanted to go back to this particular stadium.  So for his...