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I almost gave up on May during her continual string of freeze warnings. In the nick of time, however, the May flowers predicted in the annual April showers ....
Walking into their futures Boomer Blog - Shirley Scott I recently received a double envelope from Mississippi; it contained an invitation to the high school commencement of my great-niece Ally. Later I saw two Facebook pictures of the grad-to-be: one of a five-year-old, pigtailed Ally on her very first day of school; the other of a young woman, car keys in hand, on her very last day of compulsory education. I am still trying to do the math that has allowed so much to happen in such a short period of time. Although I will be with Ally in spirit only on her big day, during my lifetime I have attended more than forty graduations – including a couple of my own. I have been inside gymnasiums and outside in stadiums, sometimes moving from one to the other while dodging raindrops. Last year I watched commencement on the Graham website as students, surrounded by family members only, received diplomas – in the pandemic style of 2020. Regardless of location or year, however, ....
Pictures worth these 900 words Boomer Blog - Shirley Scott It has been an uber-busy week of adding entries to the anniversary memory book for my college graduating class. Deadlines have come and gone, and now the deadline is mine to proof the whole kit and caboodle before shipping it off to Otterbein’s print shop. I am working up to a great big WHEW! The typing process has bombarded my brain to a frazzle of fonts and point sizes, not to mention the occasional edit. Thankfully, the pictures accompanying bygone campus tales and a half century of updates allowed me to pause for the occasional, welcome moment, free of technology concerns. ....
The sparkle of Mother’s Day Boomer Blog - Shirley Scott On Sunday moms everywhere will receive the special gift of precious hugs from kids big and small. It will be a joyous Mother’s Day celebration, warmed with welcome peeks of light at the end of the pandemic tunnel. Sadly, for some of us the hugging will happen only in our hearts. We will celebrate by memory, wispy echoes of bygone moments floating past all-out cinematic recollections of occasions etched in our minds. Celebrate we will – nostalgically, bittersweetly, and a bit tearfully. Personally, I will remember my mother losing herself in a book, oblivious to kitchen chores demanding attention; following Betty Crocker’s culinary instructions through a floury cloud settling on mixing bowls and measuring spoons; fingering yarn for the knits and purls of another baby blanket or firing up her Singer sewing machine to stitch dresses for daughters. ....
Tributes to man found dead in van as police called to heartbreaking scene The man was found in a van close to The Derby Pool Harvester Restaurant in New Brighton Updated Tributes have poured in for a man who was found dead in a van at New Brighton. Merseyside Police were called to Kings Parade in Wallasey on Wednesday, to reports of a concern for a man in a vehicle. Police and paramedics attended shortly before 3.40pm, and the man, believed to be in his 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene. His death is not being treated as suspicious. ....