Connie's Corner

Happy Fourth of July!

I was thinking today back to July fourths of my childhood, and I can't remember celebrating all that much. In fact, I don't remember celebrating July 4th at all except to go to the beach. Maybe that was how we celebrated it . So I asked Jim what his family did when he was little (since in Beckley, W.V., they had no beach to go to), and he said they always celebrated BIG TIME, meaning lots of food, home-made ice cream, fried chicken, and fireworks. Hmmm. At any rate, I don't feel like I really missed anything

Our daughter called last Friday and said it was 102 degrees in Delaware. Wow, I never remember it being over one hundred for the thirty plus years I lived there. And all these storms and fires. We had oodles of rain from Debby. Four named storms in June is unheard of. What is going on?

I just finished a pretty good book titled Ellis Island although things worked out a little too conveniently for the main character. I hate when I read all the way through and everything falls into place perfectly. I think I need to take that advice myself. Happy endings can be dull...and a sort of letdown.

I'm still working my way through William Zinsser's Writing About Your Life. More on that later.

I hope everyone has a wonderful fourth no matter how you celebrate and even if you don't.

until next time....c