Here’s another billboard found on the way from Atlanta to Florida: It seems a good message for my birthday. When my grandmother was 95, I visited her on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It was the mid-1980’s. Over my objections, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Addie Watling-Skinner
My father would have been 100 years old todeay and it seems appropriate to run my articles on him again. There are lots of parts. Calvin LeRoy Skinner was born in Wilmington, Delaware June 8, 1916, the second son of … Continue reading
My niece Sarah, now in an artist’s residency in Priarietown, Massachusetts, sent me a letter she found from my grandmother Addie Watling-Skinner last month. Amazingly enough, the letter was addressed to my daughter Alexandra, 28 years old today. You can … Continue reading
Father’s Day is tomorrow and it seems appropriate to jot down some thoughts about my Dad. The story got out of hand, so I’ll cut it up and run some each day until I reach the end. Calvin LeRoy Skinner … Continue reading
Today’s “Message of the Day” is a rear window decal. It is a representation of Durer’s Praying Hands etching. I first saw them in my grandmother Addie Skinner’s home in Crumpton, Maryland. She had what I remember as a glass … Continue reading