Dispatches
Dispatches from Home – Downton Abbey Revisited.
DOWNTON ABBEY – After all the hoopla, I’m finally getting around to watching this series from the beginning via Netflix. How I missed it from Jump Street is a mystery to me. The time period is one of my favorites…
Dispatches from Home – Walls Do Work.
Greetings! I found this Letter To The Editor in Sunday’s fish wrapper of interest. The last paragraph is thought-provoking. Later Concerned Gaters! “Walls do work. The author from Carriere asserts that walls fail – Maginot Line, Hadrian’s Wall, and the…
Dispatches from Home – What Is A Peacemaker?
Good morning! The Good Book tells us in Romans 12:18, “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.” What is a peacemaker? According to an Open Windows devotion, it’s this: “A true peacemaker…
Dispatches from Home – Dillon Roof and King Noble.
I have never understood why people hate! I’ve just heard on the evening news that Dillon Roof has been sentenced to death for his horrendous murders of nine innocent people just because they were a different color than he was.…
Dispatches from Home – What I Did for Love.
It’s funny how the sparkling bubbles in a bottle of Moet and Chandon champagne can loosen one’s memories. Looking back over the past 72 years, I don’t regret what I did for love. However, I do regret what I did…
Dispatches from Home – New Year’s Morning 2025.
Greetings! Lift a toast to the New Year! I pray for thee, Dear friends of mine. That all earth’s Happiness will be thine. And even as the Year’s increase, That Father God will give Thee Heavenly…
Dispatches from Home – New Year’s Eve 2019.
As Father Time shuffles off this mortal coil and awaits the arrival of the New Year Baby, I’ve come to the end of the year and the decade, amazed at how quickly 3,650 days disappeared. I’ve also pondered about the…
Dispatches from Home – Dearest Gloria Now Home.
With bittersweet tears and profound sadness, I must report the passing of a dear friend, Gloria Gaines. Earlier this evening, God, in His infinite mercy and love, called dear Gloria Home. Home to Heaven. No more pain–cancer had caused her…
Dispatches from Home – Christmas and my Jewish Ancestry.
Greetings! It’s been an interesting few days. Christmas Eve, there was a storm which brought with it wind and rain. Christmas morning I discovered that the storm has separated my pergola from the back of our house. Yikes! What a…
Dispatches from Home – Mr. Trump and the Nazis.
Greetings! This makes for interesting reading, but I think this man is like many others on the Left: a fearmonger. Mr. Wassermann wrote “that the entire Nazi ideology is in place and wonders how far it will go here. We…
Dispatches from Home – Merry Christmas 2025.
Greetings! Had there been no cradle in Bethlehem, there would have been no Home for us in Heaven. Merry Christmas to all my FB family and friends. Big hug, y’all!
Dispatches from Home – Thank you, Santa Baby.
Greetings! Ask, and ye shall receive. Thank you, Santa Baby, for sliding down the chimney and tucking a ticket under my Christmas Tree for a cruise aboard Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas. And even though they were naughty—very naughty…