strength building – Grandma's Gleanings

Day Three Hundred Seventeen “One Bad Grade”

May 27, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

Nothing struck more dread into this young, elementary school student than report card day. Most of that achievement summary was great; I always did well in spelling, reading, writing, and any type of history. But noticeably absent from that list is math. We received two math grades, one for computation and one for problem …

Day One Hundred Eighty-Three “What’s in a Name?”

April 24, 2020 by Cathy Winkle

Um, you named your baby…what? Oh well, I guess I have officially crossed the old-age threshold and here’s the proof of that fact. Aside from the obvious physical limitations that pop up daily, the constant where-did-I-put-that memory struggle, and the technological haze that constantly envelops me, I have reached an age where I don’t always …

Day Fifty-Five “Strength Building”

October 3, 2019 by Cathy Winkle

It was grueling, painstaking work, but the future use of my arm depended on what I could accomplish in this gym. After extensive rotator cuff surgery and weeks of enduring immobilization in a sling, muscular atrophy had sapped all the strength from that injured arm. Toning and rebuilding those sleeping muscles would be painfully slow, …