A couple of Sunday’s ago our minister announced that he was turning over the service to the Boy Scouts on June 20. I instinctively reacted, “But that Sunday is Father’s…
When I was a small boy growing up on a farm out in Ohio, May 30 was known to me as Decoration Day. It was a time for families to…
It looks lonely, that old house on the hill. Not long ago there were children playing in the yard, Playing pitch and catch or perhaps stroking a purring cat While…
Today the temperature was 50 degrees and it was a real treat to get out of the house, breathe some fresh air, and check out the head of Canandaigua Lake…
We have just been reminded that modern man is not very adaptive to any kind of environmental change such as the bitter Arctic Vortex of cold air that swept down…
I wonder if I am the only one that misses all of the seed catalogues that used to come around Christmas time? This year I only received one catalogue –…
I have to admit that I am a procrastinator. When the first snow of half an inch came last fall on November 17, 2020 here in Canandaigua, NY, I put…
Judging from the feedback that I received from my last blog, there are others who are searching for peace at this Christmas time. Yesterday on the 19th of December I…
This past year has been anything but peaceful. I am a firm believer that those who hope that our society will somehow return to “normal” are delusional. Our understanding of…
With Thanksgiving and Christmas just around the corner, it’s natural for everyone to start thinking about the events of this past year and to begin to speculate on what 2021…