Foibles, bon mots and thoughts….

 Friday, December 7, 2018 </b>Mom and Dad had been engaged for a  few months and it was time to set a wedding date. Mother’s 21st birthday was coming up shortly and it was going to fall on a Sunday. She and dad decided to combine my mother’s 21st...

Foibles, bon mots and thoughts….

Ground hog ,found fog. New snow and blue toes. Find and dandy for Valentine candy. Snow Spittin’, if you’re mitten-smitten, you’ll be frost bitten! By  jing-y  feels spring-y!I would certainly like to take credit for the above quote but I can’t. It  is...

Foibles, Bon Mots, and Thoughts

    49er Faithful Fans don’t despair. It was a fantastic year and we will be that much better next year. The wise Linus consoled Charlie Brown after he struck out to end the game by saying, “ Charlie, the sun will still come up  tomorrow morning.”...

Foibles, Bon Mots, and Thoughts

 “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”  Charles Dickens  Great Expectations.March:  Ides of March, Mad as a March Hare, and March Madness, . The...

Foibles, Bon Mots, and Thoughts

“Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like ; it  always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing.”  Bryant Mc GillToday’s column should have been my almost–annual April Fool’s day column. I had a host of bon mots and thoughts...

Foibles, Bon Mots, and Thoughts

Brooks is leaving for Pico Island in the Azores next week, while this week he and Sheila are watching the grandchildren, AND this week-end they are celebrating their daughter (Rhiannon’s) 40th birthday, her son, Zack, his 1st birthday and yours truly is celebrating...