Mineral Wells Index, Mineral Wells, TX Sweet Talk

Always pay your debts

2012-05-21T08:14:39-05:00

My granddaddy taught me that you pay your debts owed, whether you can afford it or not.

May Granddaddy forgive my change of politics

2012-05-14T08:09:00-05:00

May 13 is a day that will ever be in my memory.

Laughter never gets old

2012-05-07T08:15:03-05:00

“Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”

Granny wasn't one to be fenced in or run over

2012-04-30T08:12:53-05:00

“The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth (John 3:8, KJV).

I’ve quit worrying about things I cannot control

2012-04-23T08:02:00-05:00

“There is a sumptuous variety about the … weather that compels the stranger’s admiration – and regret...

I am an outdoors girl after all

2012-04-16T08:10:52-05:00

“Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king, In whose coat armour richly are display’d, All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring, In goodly colours gloriously array’d.” Edmund Spenser, in “Amoretti”, Sonnet xix, (1595).

I don't like spiders and snakes … or storm cellars

2012-04-09T08:43:47-05:00

I have never been particularly frightened by windstorms; probably because of my greater dislike of the cellar, or “dugout,” which I was pressured to enter at the slightest indication of a storm when I was a child.

Divine intervention

2012-04-02T08:12:27-05:00

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: …a time to be born, and a time to die…”

Aging is better with friends and family close

2012-03-26T08:07:14-05:00

Being kept up to date can be shocking

2012-03-19T08:21:33-05:00

In 1911, George Bernard Shaw wrote, in the induction of “Fanny’ First Play”: “It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”