Grandma's Gleanings
Words and Thoughts from Grandma
Some days just don’t seem to have enough hours, and Monday was one of those days. As usual, I had WAY too many activities on the day’s agenda: washing and line drying the laundry, assisting with the lawn-mowing chores, tending to the hedges, blanching and freezing a few dozen ear of corn, and posting a …
Okay, I have used letter C way too often, so it can’t be that. Answer A is just plain dumb, but B and D both look plausible. How to choose, how to choose…hmm…when in doubt, let’s resort to that time-proven classic, eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Ah, the multiple choice format of testing, (or, if …
One thing is for certain, she didn’t get it from me, but she absolutely was infected…badly! Every Sunday morning, when our young toddler was dropped off at the door of our church nursery, the ladies were well aware of what was in store for them. Even at that young age, my daughter was a bit …
He was just a high school kid, trying to find a part-time job to help cover his college fees, car expenses, and provide a bit of spending money. Who would have known that years later, that job would morph into a living, as he would become the store manager of that establishment? This young …
He was perhaps the greatest American ultra-runner of the 1920’s, yet his rags-to-riches story is relatively unknown. Born in Finland in 1893, this top-rated cross-country runner immigrated to the United States at the age of 18, serving in the merchant marines during World War I. During his three-year tour of duty, he would complete …
If you are fortunate enough to reside alongside the warm beaches of Florida, or on the sunny coast of California, the term spinning your wheels may not be as meaningful to you. Unless you have been entrenched in a snowdrift, during a blinding snow storm, while the temperatures are hovering in the you-gotta-be-kidding zone, …
It would be my final school concert, all of those long years of teaching finally behind me, a bit of a bittersweet occasion. A young student of mine, our pianist, would be graduating in a few short days and pursuing a teaching career in the same field of study that had held a special place …
My husband is an avid, committed LEGO nut, and I’m not talking about the self-contained kits available at your local Walmart. He purchases his plans online, and they are HUGE projects-castles, cathedrals, and even the Taj Mahal. He tediously organizes the supply list, purchases each piece individually, files them into craft boxes, then goes …