Opinion

Well, the other shoe dropped but oh, so gently.

My mother, Grace, and her sister Elsie were lifelong best friends, two adjacent younger girls in a family of 13, and our two families had Thanksgiving together every year, usually at Elsie’s house because she was the better cook, a perfectionist, whereas Mother had six kids, four of us boys, which didn’t encourage perfection.

I like bananas.

My grandmother is still on a mission.

Most words come and go.

When I moved into a house with windows, out of a basement apartment, one of the things I most looked forward to was not only having natural light surrounding me, but the fact that I could now have plants.The house came with a variety of plants, and very soon, I was gifted many more plants.

Man has almost unlimited power to do damage and cause suffering, as we have been learning lately, and some slight power to do good, but as we grow up and pay attention to our surroundings, we see that we are beneficiaries of great gifts for which we can claim no credit, and so we have a day of thanksgiving in November, just as we’re bracing for winter.

Once again this week the weather has confounded me.

Once again this week the weather has confounded me.

I like flying out of the Atlanta airport.