by mmooney | Jun 4, 2021 | The Friday Message
Miss Margie Marie, my grand daughter spent last week end with us at the beach in McCall. Margie is growing up, last year she feared the waves coming in from the lake and no way had an interest in a ride in the boat. This year, you can see the expression on her face...
by mmooney | May 28, 2021 | The Friday Message
For weeks my grandson Hank has been working on his cubing skills. He talked his mother into purchasing speed cubes for each of his friends and some of the family. How hard could it be to solve a 3D combination puzzle. It is a 3 x3 cube with colored tiles on each of...
by mmooney | May 21, 2021 | The Friday Message
I watched a news segment this week that highlighted the life of William Felton Russell. Russell had just been inducted into the NBA Coaches Hall of Fame. Most of us remember him as Bill Russell – an American basketball player with the Boston Celtics. Bill...
by mmooney | May 14, 2021 | The Friday Message
I haven’t mentioned my Uncle Dick for a while, but he returned to mind this week in a circuitous route. As I have mentioned in past messages Dick loved a good joke, most of them were a bit on the bawdy side but he also had a fondness for the shaggy dog story. The...
by mmooney | May 7, 2021 | The Friday Message
I take this new addition to our language personally. A perceptive teenager started using this word back in 2013. It was intended to describe people who “were slightly off trend.” There was no word that described the condition accurately, so she made up the word. ...
