WRIGHTS LANE

Saturday, December 31, 2011:  The Saturday Star this morning carried a front page headline:   "My father taught us that it's never...

It was 2:30 p.m. when I heard Rosanne dialing the telephone. "Hello, Merry Christmas," she said pleasantly.  "Can you tel...

W hen people say that Christmas is about helping the poor, the underprivileged, the lonely and the forgotten, they are absolutely correct.  ...

...May the joy of Christmas fill your heart and home with happiness ABOUT THE ARTIST:  Thomas Kincade is one of the world's most col...

W hen you stop to think about it, English is one of the more difficult languages to learn.  There are so many nuances. Rosanne loves to te...

A re you fighting a battle?  Are you taking a stand?  Are you proving a point?  Or are you simply getting too tired, very tired. It may be...

The reason for the season... One day about 2,000 years ago an angel named Gabriel appeared to a young Jewish woman named Mary. Gabriel t...

I was extremely appreciative of a telephone message this morning from Dan Russell, principal of G. C. Huston Public School in Southampton. ...

T he world is going to hell in a handbasket, you say? It is so easy for we seniors to be skeptical in this day and age.  It seems to go...

"The vision will be fulfilled in its own time.  If it seems slow in coming, wait for it, for it will surely come." I dare say th...

A group of seniors discussing ailments over their morning coffee: "My arms have gotten so weak I can hardly lift this cup of coffee,...

I  heard an interesting comment the other day to the effect  that  you can't live your life on the expectations of others.    That had...

J onathan Cainer reminded me yesterday of a quote attributed to the great poet Kahil Gibran:   "Faith is an oasis in the heart which wi...

T here's a familiar refrain from George and Ira Gershwin's Porgy and Bess , "Summertime and the livin' is easy".  Leav...

F irst, Rosanne is not going to do anything for the unforeseen future, now she's going on a speaking strike. "O  come on Dick, do...

Rosanne this morning after an hour's wait in hospital for a blood test: "That's it!  I'm not going to do anything else fo...

Two men meeting on a street corner. Man #1:  How're you doing?  Say, do you hear that voice in the wilderness? Man #2:  What voice i...

T he subject of "bullying" is currently a very hot news item.  As if this unthinking act of adolescent meanness is something new. ...

W riters march to the beat of a different drummer.  They think with their fingers on a keyboard.  They are driven by ideas and a compulsion ...

THIS MORNING, 8:30 So this fellow says to me:  "Hey man, how about this weather?  Ain't it pretty?" I says to him:  ...

S omething has come between Rosanne and I.  It is our little doggy Lucy. Contrary to the advice of so-called animal experts, Lucy allows u...

I didn't talk to anyone today apart from Rosanne when she wasn't sleeping and Lucy, when she wasn't sleeping.  No one talked mu...

I heard an interesting comment the other day to the effect that you can't live your life on the expectations of others.   That had a ce...

M y conversation with "an old friend" (yesterday's post, below) was, of course, a figment of my imagination, exercising creati...

I have a very special old friend who I do not talk to as often as I should.  This morning, I called on him for a few minutes. "Sorry...

What follows is not the result of a conversation.  It is, however, the result of appreciating the words of Rev. Keith Reynolds , a periodic ...

I talked to a chap yesterday who has been out of work for more than a year due to a back injury.  He has recovered sufficiently to go back ...

I was talking to a neighbor about the difficulty of maintaining diets and all the advice we are exposed to in the media (television, newspa...

A s a matter of routine, I do not always have the necessary time, energy or inspiration to write (in my mind) entertaining, thought-provokin...

MY FAMILY HOME in Dresden from a water colour painting collection.  Note the two front door entrances.  Also one of the original front doo...

I actually learned something yesterday in the 50 minutes that I spent in a car dealership waiting to have winter snow tires installed on m...

W e were laying in bed the other morning, groggily discussing what we were going to have for breakfast. "O no," I interjected....

What is the significance of this photo?  Just read on and you'll see!  I often think that I would be unable to express myself, were i...

I n a recent Wrights Lane post I talked about the old ceiling and floor grates that used to allow heat to circulate from one level of a home...