Gill Remembers A Family Friend

Our condolences to Gill and anyone else who knows this lady. In Memory of Leona Knott Oct. 26 1928-Nov. 24 2018 I was getting my breakfast ready when a family friend called to inform me that someone who had been a large part of my childhood had past on. A Good Neighbor When I was …

A Couple Updates From Gill

I’ve gotten a couple of updates from Gill recently that I’m just getting to now. In this first one, “today” = Sunday because I was busy long weekending. Community Service When one thinks of church sponsored events, one of several things probably comes to mind. Fish fries, revival meetings and forced conversions, or in rarer …

Many A Word From Gill

While we’ve been busy largely neglecting this place the last little while because summer, Gill has still been sending things in. So here, in no particular order, I shall now plunk a bunch of the stuff about what she’s been up to into a single, gigantic Gillstravaganza. I’ll also confess to not doing much editing …

Vacation Bible School Makeover

Here’s Gill with a few words on what she’s up to these days. I don’t know where she got her ideas about volunteering, but that was never what I saw where I grew up. When you think of Vacation Bible School, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Probably you think of arts, crafts, …

Not So Kid Friendly

Gill returns to look at a topic we’ve covered before. This seems like a good example. Have you ever been curious about the origins of those stories and rhymes we read, sang and chanted as children? They may leave you with nightmares. So from sleeping beauty being violated to some very racist songs, here are …

It’s A Neighbour Thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL3xSctTB5c Hello again, Gill. This time she comes bearing bad neighbour stories and wondering about our own. For us, that’s easy. There are these ones and these ones and these ones and these ones and these ones and these ones and these ones and these ones and probably a few I’m forgetting. Yes, we’ve had …