We always know that springtime has arrived in Cleveland when the crocuses start to bloom.
We’re not out of the woods yet. It could still snow, and it’s still a little chilly, but at least we know we’re moving in the right direction.
It’s time to clean the yard of the remnants of winter. Time to open the […]
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The Sea Venture
My Uncle Carl Bunge completed his research on our family geneaology, and has traced my ancestors from Boone County, Missouri to the early settlement of Jamestown, Virginia in 1610. Micajah Gipson Proctor settled on a homestead in 1817 near present-day Sapp, Missouri, prior to the founding of the State, and I’m the 7th generation of Proctors from that line.
Prior to […]
“If”
By Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way […]
“My Bobbie”
Here is a picture of my beloved grandmother “Bobbie” with a group of dear friends, “The Booklings”, celebrating her 90th birthday on January 29th, 2005.
I lived with “Bobbie” and my grandfather “Charlie” in Columbia, Missouri, when I was in Kindergarten and 1st grade… following my parents divorce.
My parents were very young. Mom & Dad were […]
My wife, my friend
“Friends are good… Because when you have someone to share things with, They make the good things twice as good, And the bad things half as bad…” — Evelyn Raband Gleason
It would seem that
The sky is a deeper blue,
The air is fresher and cleaner,
The flowers are more fragrant,
And the birds sing more cheerfully…
All because […]