SheilaScribbles
my thoughts on life
For some unknown reason we have started receiving The Wall Street Journal at our house. Last week we received it on Thursday, Friday, and then the Saturday/Sunday edition. Sometime in the early morning hours it landed in our driveway. Monday, no paper. I thought, “okay, they’ve discovered their mistake”. Then yesterday, Wednesday, it showed up …
I worked today, it is “Labor Day” after all (ha ha, my feeble attempt at humor). I work at a private college and we held classes and all the offices were open. In spite of that, it was a pretty quiet day and still sort of managed to feel like a holiday. That was good, …
A week ago my awareness of an evil in this land moved to a new level. The evil is child abuse, and my great-niece fell victim to it. My niece’s fiancee is the accused, he was taking care her daughter while my niece was at work. An “accident” happened and he took her to the …
The first time I could vote in a presidential election was in November of 1980. I voted (yes I’ll tell) for Jimmy Carter’s re-election, he lost. I confess that most of my devotion to him was due to the fact that he was a Southerner (I am of Southern roots with a Mississippi born father …