Category Archives: Days in Small

The Good Ole Days

Posted on 2022/06/07 by Jim

I’ve been watching just like anyone else and this is what’s likely going to happen. I was born on a farm. We were as poor as some of the dirt we planted in. We had a horse, mule, and a … Continue reading →

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What Would I Tell My Dad?

Posted on 2020/12/31 by Jim

At this point in life I find myself with a peculiar thought. I turned seventy years old this year. May dad passed away at the age of sixty. This being the last day of 2020 I look in retrospect of … Continue reading →

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Grandmother

Posted on 2019/06/21 by Jim

Someone asked the question as to what one remembers about their grandmother. My dad’s mom and dad lived next to us when I grew up. My granddad died when I was seven and I loved him dearly. But grandmother was … Continue reading →

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A Rainy Monday

Posted on 2018/05/28 by Jim

What else can be added to a note with this title.  I personally find it a day to reflect a bit.  My eyes opened this morning around six fifteen with the morning light peering in around the window curtains, and … Continue reading →

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How Much Is Enough

Posted on 2017/09/19 by Jim

As many of you know, I describe myself as the eldest son of a poor dirt farmer.  The story of no running water in the house I lived in for the first nine years of my life.  I won’t belabor … Continue reading →

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My Grandparent’s Home

Posted on 2017/03/16 by Jim

Once upon a time in a seemingly far away place I picture standing on my grand dad’s and grandmother’s front porch at the steps looking through the line of crepe myrtle trees out to the main dirt road.  There were … Continue reading →

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The Horse and Cart

Posted on 2015/12/11 by Jim

One of my cousins recently posted on my Facebook page a picture of my granddaddy sitting on a horse cart with a mule hitched to it. He looked cool sitting up there. Grandmother has written on the back of the … Continue reading →

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Molly

Posted on 2014/06/03 by Jim

I remember the days in the 50’s and 60’s when we left the door to the house unlocked all the time and the keys were always in the car or truck.  There was one lady in our neighborhood who had a … Continue reading →

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State of the United States

Posted on 2012/11/17 by Jim

I’m 62 years old.  Let’s just say I’ve been around a few years.  Not as many as some, but a lot more than most.  I grew up in a poor dirt farmer’s family as the oldest son.  We had no … Continue reading →

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The Good Ole Days. . .

Posted on 2011/08/28 by Jim

Life has a way Of changing things. We just can’t stay In one spot. That I can for sure say. Gas was thirty cents a gallon, Now we really have to pay. Had no running water, But what the hey. … Continue reading →

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