by Norma Thatcher | Apr 3, 2022 | Family, Healthy Living, Interesting information, Music, Thought provoking
“I Love Classical Music” and “I Love the Nutcracker” have been two of my baby granddaughter’s favorite board books most of her 9 months of life. Both by Marion Billet, they each offer snippets of six selections of orchestra music. The sound is surprisingly good. Baby...
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 | Feb 20, 2022 | Inspirational, Spiritual, Thought provoking
Although the audiobook City of the Sun is from 2008, I just came across it recently. The main character, Frank Behr, is a private detective who retired from his career as a police officer. He gets pulled into a case by the parents of a missing 12-year-old boy, Jamie...
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 | Dec 12, 2021 | Healthy Living, Interesting information, Thought provoking
My friend Betsy had a long-ago dog (named “Dog”) who had one mortal enemy: cows. I guess I should have termed that “bovine enemy” to stay within the confines of correctness. Dog would bark from the car at every single cow they passed in the fields of rural...
