by Marlene Bumgarner | Oct 20, 2022 | Aging, Child development, Community, Cooking and Eating, Family, Grandparenting
Pumpkin Patch Traditions Long-time readers know that when I lived in Santa Cruz my oldest granddaughter and I enjoyed visiting a pumpkin patch each October. As the years passed, I watched little Bean progress in her relationship with the pumpkins. At first, she just...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Oct 10, 2022 | Family, Good Reads
Cooling Weather – Time to Read As soon as October arrived with relief from the heat wave, I turned to my very tall stack of TBR (To Be Read) books. Soon I was curled up in my reading chair wrapped in a blanket, lost in The Christie Affair, by Nina de Gramont,...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Sep 16, 2022 | Aging, Australia, Child development, England, Family
God Save the Queen Standing by the railway tracks in 1954, waving an Australian flag, I began a fascination with the Queen that would last my entire life. My schoolmates and I had been let off school to greet Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip as they embarked on a...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Sep 4, 2022 | Cooking and Eating, Health
Adjusting to the Heat Southern California, along with much of the US and beyond, is experiencing a record-breaking heat wave. In my email this morning came this warning from the Weather Service: LOS ANGELES, CA — Punishing triple-digit heat continues to bear down on...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Aug 22, 2022 | Books, Child development, Good Reads, Writing
Why Should We Read Classic Books? I have recently learned why I love great literature, and why we should read more classic books. Classics are timeless. Classic fiction contains thought-provoking situations that present its characters with sociological and...