Awake, thou wintry earth – Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness! ~Thomas Blackburn, “An Easter Hymn” I love spring. Trees sprouting new leaves, flowers blooming, birds chirping and kids antsy to meet the new life that is springing up everywhere. I love driving down a windy street that is…
“Cow! Cows can’t sleep. Cows can’t sleep. Cows can’t sleep ’cause they got that beat! SWISH! CLANK! Swish-swish! Clank! SWISH! CLANK! Swish-swish! Clank! All that racket wakes Ol’…” What’s more exciting that a midnight farm dance that gets bigger and bigger as the night goes on? Lindsey Craig and Marc Brown’s Farmyard Beat is dancing-silly-fun!…
Don’t you hate those morning when you wake up tired? You went to bed tired and yet the night just brought tossing and turning. Even more frustrating is that there isn’t a good reason or a specific “thing” you can put your finger on that causes you to drag in the morning…
I can remember the wallpaper. It was filled with blue, white, and gray clouds. The potty was so high off the ground I felt like I was in the clouds – in the most terrifying of ways. There were red airplanes flown by chubby brown bears. The sink was higher than a radio tower on…
If I was to give the month of February one descriptive word it would be “perseverance”. It’s not that the month was difficult per se in the sense that anything very serious was taking place, nor tragic, nor overly impressive of a project. Simply, it was just a month challenging my ability to stay on…