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Musings From The Hill — Living With A Teen

Displaying an agreeability I always knew she had to have, Gloria comes to sit beside me on my kneeling (let's call it what it is: my SITTING) pad, pleasing me even further as she retains a pleasant silence, leaving me to stew in my thoughts as I weed. She has no objection to my scrunching the pad ahead as I must do - as long, that is, as I don't disturb her end.The unpredictableness of babyhood has departed - mostly - as Gloria has entered her teenage years. I'm filled with gratitude for so often before I ended up feeling like a dreadful scold.Oh, yes, I am well-versed in the rewards of ...

Lost And Found

It seems that I have lost more things in the car I have now than I have ever lost before. I guess you could question if some of the things were actually lost. Maybe some of it relates to my age. I am just not sure what is going on.My granddaughter and I attended a craft show where I sold my books and she sold cards and articles with personalized art. Of course, I had to have my glasses with me so that I was able to see to sign the books. When we cleaned up we were in a hurry. It was her mother's birthday and we were celebrating.When I unloaded the car I removed everything that was jammed ...

Give It Your Best Shot

Discourage squirrels from getting on/in your bird feeder! Photos by Ron Brake of Jamestown. Send us your ''Best Shot'' of unique moments in your family's life. Write clearly your name and address on the back of the photo along with a few details, and mail to The Post-Journal, Best Shots, c/o Family Desk, P.O. Box 190, Jamestown, NY 14702-0190. Please submit only one photo per family, and include an S.A.S.E. for the return of the photo. We reserve the right to return any photo unpublished. Photos and caption information may also be emailed to family@post-journal.com or submitted via our ...

How Can We Better Prepare Children?

My most recent article briefly referenced a plea from Pope Francis for youth to "get off the couch" and put away tech toys. He urged youth to get involved in their communities. School-aged children have returned to their formal studies. I'm remembering a discussion with a friend, a former educator.He posed a number of concerns about the state of our educational system. One in particular focused on how the education system lacks for getting youth ready for the world beyond high school. I inquired about the specifics that he valued. While many youth can handle their phones and computers ...

Writer Gets Her Kicks On Route 66: Part Four

Editor's Note: This is the fourth column in a series featuring the author's travels along Route 66.Up to this point, we have traveled through three of the eight states that make up Historic Route 66 - Illinois, Missouri and 11 short miles through the southeastern corner of Kansas. We've seen beautifully restored gas stations and motels, a mile-long bridge with a 22-degree bend and an octagonal library. We've traveled over cement that was poured in 1926, over a brick stretch of country road over a mile long and on a section of 66 that was as much dirt as it was pavement.Our first bit of ...

Time is But The Stream I Go A-Fishin’ In — A Visit To Walden Pond

Every week my sister and I drive to the lake and around the county because we need what Thoreau would call "the tonic of wildness" - the respite from the real world, the social world, found only in Nature. Henry David Thoreau understood that and presented it to readers for generations to come in his memoir Walden, a philosophical treatise he wrote about his stay of two years and two months at Walden Pond a mile or so outside his home town of Concord, Massachusetts, 1845-47.We need the tonic of wildness, now more than ever perhaps. Maybe part of what drove immigrants to the unsettled ...