The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, ‘I am older than you, and must know better’; and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said. At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, called ..read more

It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard it muttering to itself ‘The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them, I wonder?’ Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were nowhere to be seen—everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the g ..read more

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice ‘without pictures or conversations?’ So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There w ..read more

‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); ‘now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!’ (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off). ‘Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I’m sure I shan’t be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can;—but I must be kind to them,’ thought Alice, ‘or perha ..read more

Are you ready for Spring?  This week as I was traveling through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee I was reminded just how much I love spring blossoms and folliage. It is such a hopeful thing to see the plants and trees budding out after such a cold winter.  It is as though God says “let’s ..read more

One of my favorite things about my husband is he is likely to swoop me into his arms at the most busy times and click his phone into our favorite song and invite me to dance. The world stops and only his deep brown eyes matter. It is one of the most loving things he ..read more

When I was a little girl in Gurdon Arkansas, a little girl named Robyn lived down the street. Her family was kind to mine and I often played at her home. Later they moved to a brand new home in the country in the same town area. I was so amazed when I arrived the ..read more

Do you have a favorite local space? One of mine is in Decatur, Alabama, where our family lived for eleven. Years before moving to the Ozarks of Oklahoma.  It all began when we moved to the new to us town of Decatur. Feller was in the Department of Defense working with the Defense Contracting Agency ..read more

Do you have a favorite local space? One of mine is in Decatur, Alabama where our family lived for eleven. years before moving to the Ozarks of Oklahoma.  It all began when we moved to the new to us town of Decatur. Feller was in the Department of Defense working with the Defense Contracting Agency ..read more

We had a snowstorm last week in Northeast. Oklahoma, what I call the Ozarks of Oklahoma and i found new appreciation for my rural hometown businesses. When over 10 inches of snow came to the Ozarks in one day. We needed more birdseed, more dogfood and more help understanding how to effectively use our heater ..read more