
"Guck" on Trees
Perhaps, my lingering emotional quivering after Hurricane Matthew hit in early October, is partially due to my being “guck” on trees. Amelia, my dearly loved granddaughter, now a college student, used to announce she was guck and needed help as a toddler. Her grandpa and I use that term when we get “guck” on an issue, a problem, a challenge, or some frustration. Are you “guck,” we will ask one another. And I think I may be guck, foolishly guck, over the loss of trees, the dam

Hurricane decisions & disruptions
It appears we may have lost our roll of the dice regarding experiencing a hurricane in Florida. We moved here nine years ago this month. Most of our worldly goods were piled into a rental truck. One of our sons drove our car, which was also packed as we moved from North Dakota to Florida. No more blizzards and bone chilling cold winters for us. I ignored the possibility of a someday hurricane. I’d visited Florida for years, experienced some wild storms, but hurricanes. Best n