Life Stories

Holidays don’t usually live up to their reputations.  Ask the dateless teenager on Valentine’s Day, or the young wife who finally realizes that hubby has forgotten that “day of days”- their anniversary.  And fathers?  Well, I refer you to the famous Bill Cosby routine, where the kid picks up a stick, puts a notch in it with his pocket knife, and presents it to his dad for Father’s Day.  And so, it wasn’t a big surprise when my birthday fell […]

My grandson Christian called me the other day and informed me that he was a “bee guardian”.  He made this announcement with the undiluted enthusiasm and sincerity  found only  in small children.  This is my fault.  Ever since they watched an organic, freshly-squeezed, Colorado- based beekeeping video with me a few months ago, all my grandchildren are determined to become “bee guardians”.  They plan to defend and protect  honeybees from pesticides, antibiotics, unnatural cell size and things that go bump

Today began as one of those “It’s 5:30 a.m. and the dogs are barking to be let out” days.  Nothing says “Wake up” so eloquently as a near-dawn  walk in frosty weather.  The temperature change wasn’t a great shock though.  I forgot to turn the heat back on last night, and awoke shivering, curled up like a shrimp. Star-shine gave way to a chilly gray dawn.  And it continues chilly and gray- but snow-less!  Due to the mildness of the