Summer Drinks

Around here we drink ice tea, especially over the hot summer months. I like to drink my tea unsweet but most every place around here will bring you sweet tea with a wedge of lemon on the rim of the glass unless you ask for unsweet tea. I like to add fruits to mine once in a while. The current favorite fruit additive is peach or mango. That makes it a fresher taste with body in the tea. But just about any fruit can be added to tea - it’s universal.

Happy Holidays

This time of year is for holidays and family things, no matter what your religion or lack of. It’s the season to be merry. It’s the time to be generous and grateful. This is when you realize that family means everything and friends are to be treasured.

So Merry Christmas to my friends and family. If you celebrate other holidays during this time of year, I hope that your choice of celebration is wonderful for you, too.

Red and Blue States

I live in a red state. Even though I voted blue and both of my kids voted blue, and several of our friends voted blue, our votes weren’t enough to make our state turn blue. That was pretty frustrating - I wish I fit in better with our neighbors. But they are evidently red.

On a good note, blue won overall. So there.

Happy Halloween

Don’t let the Boogey Man get you. Or the ghosts, the witches or those cute little princesses. Be safe out there. Have fun. And give me some of your candy! Chocolate - I want chocolate.

Feeling Good

There must be hundreds of thousands of people who get up every morning and smile right away. They are embracing the new day and are looking forward to whatever treats the new day has in store for them.

Then there are the others who wake up dreading what troubles the day will bring. Some of them have good reason - they are facing a day in court or perhaps a job performance review, a dispatch to the front lines of a war, or a difficult medical procedure. But many people are just depressed from their normal quality of life and daily troubles.

I wish I had the solution to the people who drag themselves through the day feeling depressed and sad. That must be awful. I try to start my day with a smile and a good cup of coffee. It doesn’t always work out that way, but I do make the effort.