Deanna M.'s Blog (2)

I was minding the Salvation Army Christmas kettle at WalMart, passing the time people watching and mentally going over what had been bought, and needed to be bought, for gifts and stocking stuffers when I realized, someone would have to do Mom’s stocking.

Stockings have been a huge part of our Christmas for as long as I can remember, often more treasured than many of the gifts exchanged.   Typically they contained everyday toiletries, an excess of candy, a few nifty gadgets…

Hello, I’ve been a member of this site for awhile, mostly lurking, learning a lot, and enjoying the stories and pictures of everyone’s doodles, but I have some confessions to make……

Confession #1…I am not a dog person.  I grew up with cats my whole life and as an adult pretty much always had at least one.  With a few exceptions dogs were smelly, drooling, creatures who were either yappy or scary or both.  Probably because the only dogs I was really exposed to were toy poodles…