Shining Moments

Although I have considered from time to time      discontinuing this blog    I long to give you a glimpse today of someone who knew what it was to live        within the shining moments         brightly creating thousands of moments for others. Yes, Emily Ann Black...

Shining Moments

We called her Aunt Annie although she wasn’t my aunt. Only a friend of my grandmother    but throughout my childhood she left many shining moments    and one in particular comes to my mind today…..years later. When Aunt Annie came to visit she would usually stay 2...

Shining Moments

I thought my world had come to an end.    There I was hours away from home       and my mommy and daddy and two brothers. Suddenly sent away to stay with my aunt when my mother came down with polio. Not knowing that I’d ever see my family again. Not understanding....

Shining Moments

It was a rainy day that my girls and I set out on foot to walk to Foxes Lobster House    in hopes of getting some food. What else do you do when you are at the beach   and it’s raining hard outside? What else do you do when you have no car and walk everywhere? So we...

Shining Moments

From the moment I saw the little book in Garfield’s at York Beach, Maine,    I knew that it was special. Maine in Four Seasons is a collection of poems by 20 poets. Every once in a while I have thought about spending a year in Maine. “Oh you don’t want to do that,”...