Voices in the Wind

Many years ago, on the family farm down by the river, Chimitig, the Old Hickory Tree kept watch of all that happened at the big house. The tree saw the two red foxes, Tsula and Inali, as they hunted and played with their kits in the morning and evening. The tree saw the bumblebees as they buzzed...

How the Bumblebee Got It's Stripes

It was a beautiful summer on the family farm! Papa was at the shoe store and Louie was up the road a piece at their grandparents house, learning to play the cornet. Ed helped Mama hang the clean clothes on the clothesline, and asked, Mama? Can I go down to Chimitig and visit Bandit?Yes, Ed, you...

Galigi, the King Snake

Many years ago, on the family farm down by the river, Chimitig, the Old Hickory Tree, watched everything that happened on the family farm. One summer day, when the sun was just peeping over the fields, Chimitig saw a long King Snake, with beautiful markings, make its way up from the river, across...

Lunatic Fringe -- For Kavika and my Native American Friends

I made this video a few months ago-- for Kavika. I was trying to show that however evil men can be, the spirits protect those who are not as strong, or at the mercy of evil men. Of course, I use cats in the video... Their little village is in the desert, as are all the animals that live nearby.It...

Lilly White Legs

Many years ago, a beautiful black and white cat, named Lilly lived with Ed, Louie, Mama, Papa, and Wrecks, the family dog, on the family farm next to the Ohio River. The family called her Lilly White Legs because she had a soft, black fur coat, and she washed and washed and washed, to keep the...

Tsula and Inali -- Part 2

Many years ago, there was a family farm next to the little town of Hawesville, Kentucky, on the banks of the Ohio River. When the land was settled, the property was claimed by right of homestead by a frontiersman, who came to make his living. Many years later, his descendants sold the land to a...

Tsula and Inali, the red foxes -- Part 1

One fine spring day on the family farm, down by the river, a beautiful red fox, named Inali, and her mate, named Tsula, came to the farm to live. The foxes carefully walked along the edge of the corn field, next to the woods, and then slipped into the edge of the woods to look for the perfect...

Our Sydney-5 Video

Since our dear Susan has joined us, I wanted to Publish her video here, at our site! This is not meant to be sad-- but a celebration of a life well-lived!When I met Susan, we both agreed that this was one of our favorite songs. Nearly every picture in the video is something that we talked about,...

The Newsvine Goodbye Video

I thought you may enjoy my latest and last video to be published to NV. Perhaps you, too, can relate! Watch at the end of the video-- I put in a listing of all of my friend's names that I could find. The Friends page sucks, resets every few minutes, and it NEVER gets down to the bottom of my...

Sharing Great Out-of-Print Stories -- The Birds, Daphne du Maurier

If, like me, you like to read whole stories, Im going to try to fit this into one loooong blog. I am typing this story from the book, Bennet Cerfs Take Along Treasury, published by Doubleday & Company, Inc. in Garden City, New York, in 1963. The books Library of Congress Catalog Card Number...