by Margaret Ingraham | Aug 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
There are two words that many folks across this land, and several of us in the NFESH office, eagerly await every spring. “Play ball!” heralds the beginning of that great American pastime, major league baseball, assures us that summer is just around the corner and...
by Margaret Ingraham | Aug 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Catch phrases, those expressions that roll off our tongues often, can tell us and teach us a great deal about ourselves, our circumstances, our culture and our thoughts if we…well…take the time to think about them. But the fact is, apparently we rarely do. We seem to...
by Margaret Ingraham | Jul 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Regular readers of this blog, who are accustomed to receiving email notifications each time a new segment appears, don’t need to be told that things went a bit awry last time we posted. Neither the cause of the glitch nor the means to correct it was easy to determine....
by Margaret Ingraham | Jul 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Even under “usual” circumstances or a “typical” year – which no one would argue that this one is – the Fourth of July is distinguished in several ways from other holidays that we Americans share. For one thing, it is, after all, one of the few purely American...
by Margaret Ingraham | Jun 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Whether they are annuals or perennials, if we pay attention to them the flowers keep us — pardon the pun — grounded. As we walk or drive down the streets of our home towns or just look out the windows of our homes, the flowers not only brighten our...
by Margaret Ingraham | Jun 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
These present days in America are disturbing, jarring, unprecedented. They can drive us to despair or they can call us to remember and act on familiar words and phrases penned centuries ago: “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” “with liberty and...
