Category: Diana Ingram

My mother always used to say, “Take it easel Geisel, you’ve got a long way to slide.” It has taken most of my life to figure out just what she meant by that coded statement. A lot of health issues hit me when I reached the half...

As we travel our own life’s adventure, with luck, we continue to grow and mature. With the Fourth of July just freshly in my rear mirror, my six-point path to patriotism came into focus. Join me on my memory tour. When I was a...

Imagine a small building topped with an unstable straw roof on which a fiddler is delicately playing. Imagine the fiddler singing of the concerns of your day — money, security, safety, and violence. On the ground we see a...

In the words of Lancelot and Guinevere from the musical Camelot, “Tra La! It’s May, the lusty month of May, that lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray.” Wow! How can you help but be excited about a month with...

Some words when put together can create magical images about dreams fulfilled from out of nowhere. Sometimes, those are the very thoughts that help us through the day when we daydream. Sometimes, just sometimes, they do come...

This column in devoted to everything you ever wanted to know about Easter and more. The year is 1965. We are in the quaint oceanside town of Ventura. It is loaded with cause for a celebration day. Our clock reminds us that it is...

The bible tells us that God created the world in just seven days. Amazing! It makes most of us feel like low achievers. But, sometimes in our normal feet-on-the-ground world, it does seem like we can fit a lot into seven days....

“With rings on her fingers And bells on her toes Elephants to ride upon My little Irish Rose So come to your Nebob And next St. Patrick’s Day You’ll be Mrs. Mumbo Jumbo Jidi boo Sheh” I hope you enjoyed...

Everyone has been touched in some way by the scourge that the COVID-19 pandemic brought into our lives. Some may have been touched by the death of a loved one, become ill, lost work or lost a job, missed attending special...

We all have those moments when we stop to take stock of our lives. We try to evaluate where we are, think of where we want to be headed, and then our mind travels back again to where all our data is stored, our memory. At a...

My favorite Christmas carol is Joy to the World. This classic expresses the exaltation of the angels announcing the birth of Christ. Every time I sing it my heart seems to fill with emotion. The emotion of joy. Joy is such a...