Confederate Memorial Day, Small Towns Festivals and Beer!

I've seen this before, in person, at Stone Mountain Park. Stone Mountain, GA Confederate Memorial Day, small town summer festivals, and the health benefits of beer have nothing to do with each other at first glance. However, on closer inspection, you will see a clear and definite connection. Read on. Confederate Memorial Day is the fourth Tuesday in April in various...

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InternetTechnology - Something I Know and Love

The last two topics that I remember on this blog challenge were Write What You Know and Finishing Something. So I'm going to do these in that order. It is a bit of a historical presentation, which I would have done, but some time later. Thanks again to Jeff Goins for his nudge.  What I know and what I love and what really thrills my brain is internet...

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Eulogy - Speaking Kindly of the Deceased

An Assignment - Not a Report of My Death! :) SandraTeresa Davenport was many things to many people. She was grandly Bohemian. She moved about the earth as she pleased. She dressed herself in an easy, colorful fashion, always with a collection of trinkets around her neck and wrists. Her uniform was long, flowing skirts, mostly black with overblouses, shawls and baggy...

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Work -

For the record, I was never a good employee. There is somebody somewhere who will agree but today, I honestly do not care. Wearing a Name Tag. Wow. Work was always a thing that I had to do if I wanted to survive. I can honestly say that out of the numerous jobs that I've had, I have enjoyed maybe 3. I really enjoyed teaching third grade at a charter school and Phoenix...

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Expectations. Influencers. Disappointment...Keep Moving!

I will begin by telling you a great way to avoid disappointment: Follow your own mind. Avoid influencers. Sometimes a person is so influenced by what someone else wants for them, they forget what they want for themselves. Influencers always have some ideas, input, direction, suggestions. Ignore them. Every time I entered into experiences that I wanted for myself,...

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Travel

The time is 10:21 p.m. And today is Monday April 4, 2016.  I am a little bit late but thanks to Google Voice typing I am getting this done before bed. Today's challenge is to write about travel. No problem. I presently live in the house where I grew up. It is in rural Northeast Georgia. I have lived in four states [Alabama, Arizona, California, Indiana] and Washington...

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First Sunday Communion- A Series of Sunday Posts

The sacrament of communion is observed the first Sunday of every month Protestant/Denominational Christian churches,  I will share with my memories, my learning and my own ideas of what communion would be like in my 'church,' if I had one. Everybody dresses in a certain type of outfit for communion: White [I think of it as a costume]. The adult women wear white...

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