Proverbs – Grandma's Gleanings

Day Two Hundred Eighty-Nine “Nitre”

May 13, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

It’s a classic entry science experiment for kids, assembled thousands of time a year in classrooms across the country. A bit of baking soda, some vinegar, and a touch of food coloring and you have all the ingredients for some frothy, messy, hands-on fun for kids of any age…their very own volcano. But there …

Day Two Hundred Eighty-Six “Gifted”

May 11, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

In the course of my teaching career, I have been fortunate enough to have encountered a myriad of some truly gifted young people. I met one such student in the autumn years of my teaching career. This young lady was simply amazing; she could take a camera and not only capture what the camera saw, …

Day Two Hundred Sixty-Five “Eyes to See, Ears to Hear”

May 3, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

It’s simple word picture, attached to a message or email, used millions of times a day to convey emotions, thoughts, or ideas. Borrowed from the Japanese word pictograph, literally e for picture or drawing, and moji, letter or character, an emoji is now widely used to express the emotional attitude of the writer, to …

Day Two Hundred Forty-Nine “Top Seven”

April 23, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

It was a format developed in the early 1950’s, using the classic jukebox as its medium. If you don’t know what a jukebox is, you obviously did not spend your teen years in the 50’s or early 60’s. A jukebox was a coin-operated, automated, music-playing device popular in every teenage hangout in the mid-20th …