Grandma's Gleanings
Words and Thoughts from Grandma
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An American painter and inventor, Samuel Morse, found the roots of his interest in the field of electricity while a student at Yale University. He would go on to spend twelve years attempting to perfect a working telegraph, during which time he composed his Morse code and secured the financing for the first experimental …
Some folks are talented musicians, not merely playing notes on a page, but making those notes sing. Some can take a raw piece of wood and carve it into a masterpiece. Others can grasp a palate of paint and some brushes, reach deeply within themselves, and create art. Personally, I have always enjoyed storytelling. I …
Some days I find myself at a loss for words, literally. As a lingering side-effect of my long bout with Lyme disease, I sometimes lose words. They are common, uncomplicated words, but suddenly and without warning, they are gone, wiped from my memory banks like an eraser sweeping across a chalkboard. Those teeny Lyme …
Oh, the joy of cutting into a fresh, crisp watermelon! This will certainly be the perfect dessert for the Sunday afternoon dinner that will follow a morning of worship at our local church. No one was looking, so I did sneak a few bites while slicing up our tantalizing dessert. After all, someone has …
Nothing smells better than line-dried clothing, nothing! That fresh, outdoorsy smell cannot be duplicated, regardless of how many posy-scented dryer sheets you stuff into the machine. But if clothes are hung out to dry on a day void of a breeze, be prepared to put your iron to good use, for those shirts are …
That old train overpass has been there for years, a landmark from my childhood. I remember passing under it while riding my crowded school bus, barely clearing its arched, stone roof, squeezing through that narrow tunnel. I recall walking under that ancient structure on the way to the local creek that weaves a path …
What a welcome surprise was in store for me! God had afforded me an opportunity to help out a sister who was struggling physically, and after four hours of housework and laundry, this ole’ gal was pooped out. On my way home, I thanked God for blessing me with this open door of ministry …
We had the privilege of taking two of our grandchildren on an outing to one of our favorite spots this past summer. We carefully planned the departure time so that we would arrive at our destination early, be the first ones into the animal park, beat the crowd, avoid the heat of mid-day, and …
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I have NEVER been a big fan of perfume, I am the one reduced to weepy eyes, a stuffy nose, and bouts of sneezing if I’m exposed to strong scents in an enclosed area for any extended amount of time. Even an encounter with a flowery dryer sheet can send this gal into an …
I don’t always pick up on things immediately, but one insight that I gained when I officially crossed the threshold into senior citizen-hood came to me effortlessly, and here it is…weeding one’s way through the myriad of insurance packages available is one tangled, complicated, expensive endeavor. Allow me to put that into layman’s terms, …
As a parent, I have experienced this dilemma far too often. The children become hyper-focused on one topic, getting a pet, any pet. Oh, please, not this again! Now the type of pet has run the whole gambit variety-wise: rabbits, hamsters, fish, ferrets (ewww, smelly), crabs (also smelly), stray dogs, and homeless kittens. If …
I’m probably trapped in an old-age rut, but my morning routine generally plays out in a similar fashion every morning. Arising early, predawn, I open my back door, step out on the deck, and am immediately greeted by my four not-so–feral-anymore kitties, all brimming with hunger and loudly vocalizing the need for food, NOW. …
Preparations were well under way for the upcoming Christmas program, costumes had been prepared, songs memorized, promotional material distributed. The elementary children had worked on one specific selection with undeterred effort. It was one tough song, a medley of familiar tunes from Classical composers, all set in a Christmas fantasia highlighting the song, Deck …