stewards – Grandma's Gleanings

Day Three Hundred Forty “Multiple Choice”

June 7, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

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 …

Day Two Hundred Seventy-Nine “Managers”

May 8, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

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 …

Day Two Hundred Twenty-Four “Plumb Line”

March 31, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

There was a crooked man…He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse; And they all lived together in a crooked little house. That about sums it up for us, except for the fact that we have four crooked cats that we didn’t buy, our fair share of uninvited crooked mice, but we …

Day One Hundred Eighty-Two “Regardless”

February 15, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

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, …