gaylegcurtin

Author, retired insurance professional, volunteer, and member of Author's Guild Tennessee.

Forget brand squabbles – Mayonnaise or Miracle Whip?

It’s weird how the mind remembers the silly details. I still can’t remember the colour of my wife’s eyes, but I can remember that we were arguing about mayonnaise. ~ Matthew Munson, Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology Survey results Clearly, I am some sort of masochist. I know this, since I once again sought to confirm my

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Daffodils say, “spring is on the way & Winter is dead.”

“She turned to the sunlight    And shook her yellow head,And whispered to her neighbor:    “Winter is dead.”~ A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young Most of the world calls these lovely blooms daffodils. To me, they will always be buttercups. Whatever you call them, they are symbols of the easing of cold weather and, very often, markers of

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The Smith, A Brief History

Under a spreading chestnut-tree     ⁠The village smithy stands;The smith, a mighty man is he,     With large and sinewy hands,And the muscles of his brawny arms     Are strong as iron bands. Excerpt from The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I recognize that I have not begun to plumb the depths of my ignorance on commonplace topics. This is

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