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Way back when, when my grandparents’ house was filled with visiting relatives, and I would be listening, there was never any talk about white people. And, as I’ve written before, until I was twelve, white people didn’t exist. They were not part of my world. I remember conversations, some heated, about the Bible, the trouble…

Can you believe? It is 2024 and we still have Black mothers, who now have a choice, giving their daughters white dolls. I had white dolls when there was no choice. Growing up, in the stores in the southern town of my childhood, there were no Black dolls. Maybe, that’s why I never bonded with…

Seems like I will have tomatoes in November if this weather remains warm. The tomato plants have plenty of blossoms and fruit on the vines. Can the United States overcome its toxic misogyny to elect a female as president? Mexico has. The misogyny in this country is as deeply ingrained as in Mexico. So, we…

I didn’t do too much planting this year–tomatoes and a few herbs. The tomatoes did not do well, but now I have plants that are blooming and and fruiting. When I was growing up, we would plant the tomatoes in full sun and get loads of tomatoes. I talked to another backyard gardener and she…

Autumn is around the corner, but today, the end of August, the temperature is around 100 degrees. I am really annoyed at the beggars constantly asking for money…no, they call it donations. Yes, I gave. That does not mean I want to be bombarded with requests for another donation. Just five dollars, three dollars…anything. I…

I have to revisit that jump rope ditty of elementary school. Cinderella dressed in yellow; went to town to see her fella; How many kisses did she get? I think in this yellow dress, she got all the kisses she wanted! Do children today know how to make jacob’s ladders? I remember being so proud…

I visited the farm and the sinkhole that has been in what, in the past, was the cornfield was filled with water. And, there were these cranes(?). I have never seen cranes at the farm before. I hope you can see the pair of cranes. How can anyone deny that the climate is changing? Or…

When I was growing up, if my memory is correct, there were maybe two popup lilies in the yard. They never spread like in some places. Usually they spread in a circular pattern like in the above picture. The lilies were always a dusky pink color. My mother speculated that the lilies were the gift…

During the 1960s, my father would always plant a huge garden. Our farm was hilly, so the garden was on a higher elevation than the house. The earth had a bit of red clay mixed in and, after planting, the ground would be concrete hard. We didn’t water the garden that much, but all the…

Sirius is colloquially known as the “Dog Star“, reflecting its prominence in its constellation, Canis Major (the Greater Dog).[19] The heliacal rising of Sirius marked the flooding of the Nile in Ancient Egypt and the “dog days” of summer for the ancient Greeks… Excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius We’ve had, in the past week, some of the hottest days on the planet, which has given new meaning to…