by Norma Thatcher | Mar 27, 2022 | Books, Friendship, Love, Thought provoking, Words
Within a span of days the book itself appeared before me twice, as in separate friends asking me, “Hey, have you read this book yet?” Then an easily recognizable snippet of one of the book’s drawings showed up when I was researching vendors on Facebook. I’ve mentioned...
by Norma Thatcher | Jan 15, 2022 | Interesting information, Love, Thought provoking
I’m beginning to believe I may have a fixation on hands. When I read an article on NextAvenue.org about elderly people usually being portrayed photographically in the media by just their hands, I knew I wanted to write about it. But then I recalled that I had written...
by Norma Thatcher | Jan 9, 2022 | Love, Thought provoking
The tradition began when my first grandson was between two and three and could understand language. I would ask, “How much does Grammy love you?” His eyes would light up as I held up one hand and measure about an inch between my thumb and index finger. “This much?” I...
by Norma Thatcher | Sep 19, 2021 | Family, Love, Prayers
I live in the countryside so it’s usually very quiet at night. Since it’s just my husband, me, and the dog who are here, there’s not even much household noise after 10 p.m. Grace the beagle is an excellent sleeper. About the only noise she makes in...
by Norma Thatcher | Sep 12, 2021 | Family, Love
What started as a family tradition with my two young children and me morphed into an ongoing inside joke between my grown daughter and me. And now you’ll be in on it! When Laura and Tim were young, we would stop for ice cream (or Slurpees) after any doctor visit. I...
by Norma Thatcher | Jun 13, 2021 | Home, Love, Spiritual
Be honest. How often do you read poetry? For a while, it seemed to me that poetry was on its way out. So I was happy when the 2020 winner of America’s Got Talent was Brandon Leake whose talent was identified as “spoken word poet.” And of course with Amanda Gorman’s...
