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Wordless Wednesday: Skywriting Over Germany

Wordless Wednesday: Skywriting Over Germany

by MarianBeaman | Jan 27, 2021 | blog, popular culture, Uncategorized

How German pilot celebrated the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccine in December 2020         Is the Covid-19 vaccine available in your area? Do you plan to get the vaccine when it is offered?
Taking the Plunge: Liesbet Travels the Sea

Taking the Plunge: Liesbet Travels the Sea

by MarianBeaman | Jan 20, 2021 | blog, book review, Conflict, popular culture, Quotations, Travel, Uncategorized

Almost exactly one year ago this week, Liesbet, Mark, and Maya visited our home, via their RV Zesty. I wrote about our 4-hour visit HERE.   Liesbet and I spent part of the time discussing her work-in-progress memoir, PLUNGE, here just a manuscript on her Tablet...
Cathedral Windows: from Candy to Communion

Cathedral Windows: from Candy to Communion

by MarianBeaman | Jan 13, 2021 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, Literature, popular culture, Uncategorized

The surge of the Covid-19 virus and the ensuing lockdown launched nearly a year of frantic baking and a run on flour and sugar in the grocery aisles. What first had become a coping mechanism during the pandemic has perhaps evolved into a new pastime (or passion) as...
10 Life Lessons from the Queen

10 Life Lessons from the Queen

by MarianBeaman | Dec 9, 2020 | blog, Coming of Age, Gratitude, popular culture, Quotations, Tips, Uncategorized

As Groucho Marx once said, “Anyone can get old — all you have to do is to live long enough.     🙂   But living long enough is not enough, apparently. It’s a good idea to savor life, one well lived. This from an article published recently by Brian Kozlowksi...
Thanksgiving 2020: The Silly, the Secular, and the Sacred

Thanksgiving 2020: The Silly, the Secular, and the Sacred

by MarianBeaman | Nov 25, 2020 | blog, Cliff Beaman artist, Family / Nostalgia, popular culture, Uncategorized

The Silly   Detail, enlarged     The Secular     The Sacred   Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.      ~ Psalm 100:3   KJV   As you approach Thanksgiving...
The Astonishing Story of Little Ruby Bridges

The Astonishing Story of Little Ruby Bridges

by MarianBeaman | Aug 19, 2020 | blog, Coming of Age, Conflict, neighborhood, popular culture, Uncategorized

Little black girl Smartly dressed in white Beginning first grade in New Orleans   Who is Ruby Bridges?   Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old African American girl, is pictured on her first day of class at the William Frantz School in New Orleans, Louisiana....
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