This is a rainy Monday morning, in the last week of April. Karen Carpenter sang, “Rainy Days And Mondays Always Get Me Down.” Not me. I love a rainy day. I especially enjoy a walk in the rain. Just ask Gene Kelley who danced and sang, “Singing In The Rain”. It’s fun. One of the last walks Buck and I took together was just after he had had his first carotid artery operation. It was a successful surgery and he was feeling well. So, we opened our umbrella and took a walk on an

In today’s world we search for good news. If you watch cable news networks and listen to radio, you will be hard put to find any. Maybe that is why so many of us remember Princeton as a home town where people weren’t afraid of letting their kids roam the neighborhoods until supper time. Bird Haven was a great place to raise a family in 1966, when we moved into our first home. The kids discovered the creek that runs across east to west. My children were forbidden, like so man

You may or may not be a fan of the game of golf. But during this week in Augusta, Georgia, there is a battle going on that equals the world series in the game of golf. It is a battle for the coveted “green jacket”…The Masters Tournament. I first became aware of the tournament in 2003, the year that my husband had a massive stroke. Buck was never a big “sports” fan. No football or baseball interested him. One sport he did enjoy was the game of golf. Buck always worked. He de