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          Cooling temperatures remind us that winter is around the corner.  The upstate New York area has already had its first snow of the season.  In Ella's Trouble Stone,  I have included  a chapter about a "white out" snow storm.  This type of storm suddenly comes off Lake Ontario and dumps…

   You know it is fall in North Carolina when...          * the farmers are harvesting crops of tobacco and cotton and sweet potatoes.          * the searing heat of summer has disappeared          * the nandinas are loaded with red berries          * the fall camellias are blooming          * children collect acorns, pinecones,…

Will what I do today really matter 10 years from now, or 100 years from now?This question inspires me to live with more purpose.  So much of what we do today will last for only a short time.  How do we get rid of the time wasters in our lives …

     Some people fear that the Ebola virus could potentially become a world-wide pandemic.  People are looking to the medical community for answers, but have they forgotten that they can look to the Almighty for help?  People in the 1880's did not have antibiotics or inoculations to prevent such horrors.  Doctors in…