Where’s my mom?
It was getting later and later. My watch told me it was now approaching five thirty! Club dismisses at 4:45 p.m.. It was early February and now dark outside. The…
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Dog vs. Cat Smack Down
Who will win this round? Molly, our 80 pound, yellow Labrador Retriever on the home team? Or, Peanut, an 8 pound visiting feline? Slow introductions of new animals are a…
Back in the Saddle Again
Today I started working on a project for a local elementary school. Due to the pandemic, environmental day festivities – usually held on or around Earth day in April –…
Slice of Life Story Challenge 2021: Four Years Later & Blog Post 1,320
Today, is my one thousandth, three hundredth, and twentieth blog post! That’s right I’ve made 1,320 posts to The Apples In My Orchard! It all started just before the Slice…
Sometimes, Life Gives You Just What You Need at the Right Time.
For the last few days, I’ve been in a slump. It’s really the first slump I can recall during the pandemic. Mostly, my “slumpiness” revolved around feelings about my own…
Slice of Life Tuesday: Provocation & Acceleration, Part I
One of my goals for this year is to ramp up my blog readership to at least fifty visitors a day. This month, February – a short month, that goal…
Educational Leadership on the Line
In a few hours, the League of Women Voters in our area will host a candidate forum for those running for our local school board. As you can imagine, it…
Poetry Friday: Writing Tasks
What have I worked on this week? I am a reflective thinker. Perhaps, too much so. I find that sometimes all my thinking stalls my actions and prevents forward movement.…
