by Norma Thatcher | Jun 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Our dog Riley gave my husband a gift for Father’s Day. No, I didn’t buy my husband a new shirt and slap on a gift tag that said, “To Dad, from Riley.” The dog performed an action of love on his own Sunday morning. Riley sounded a 6 a.m. furiously-loud alert that a...
by Norma Thatcher | Jun 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
I was just a young woman when America’s official involvement in the Vietnam war ceased. Several high school friends engaged in active combat there; remarkably and thankfully, none of them died while serving our country. The Huey helicopter (nicked for the designation...
by Norma Thatcher | Jun 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
No doubt about it – there are some hilarious animal videos posted on Facebook. The posts run from owners who “shame” their canine family members by hanging “mea culpa” signs around the necks of guilty looking dogs to cats who rule over dogs by stealing their food,...
by Norma Thatcher | Jun 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
One of the most interesting experiences of my life happened at a high school reunion some years ago. The entertainment portion was a stage hypnotist. When he asked for volunteers, my hand shot up, along with half a dozen others. I’d had zero experience with...
by Norma Thatcher | Jun 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
“As soon as you stand in the doorway, you can tell it’s a girl’s bedroom” Or something close to that is how I began a high school English assignment to describe something. Moving from rented house to rented house within the same town while growing up didn’t give me a...
