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it fills the heart, but not to bursting;
it warms it, but not to fever.”
--Emily Brontë
Welcome to November 2025
Dear October chose to end with two Capital H experiencies:
Halloween and Hurricane. The first brings primarily anticipated fun,
fellowship, building memories together, family fun. The second wreaks
destruction and despair and inevitably tons of debt incurred both
medically and for clean up, repairs, and rebuilding. Our thoughts and
prayers are with Jamaica and Cuba, the areas most devastated.
Our authors had completed this month's bounty of compositions
before either of those inevitabilities occurred, so readers can
anticipate Pencil Stubs with pleasure. We are presenting another article
by Ara Parisien, one of our former columnists. It is titled "Missing
Persons Cases."
Our friend Walt Perryman's three poems are "How to Start Your Day," "Rerun Reminder," and "Our True Story." Bruce Clifford sent "Lost In You" then shows a change of mood in "Olive." Webmaster Michael Craner's "Dreams, Memories, Dreams" may awaken some such for you.
Happily showing three poems by my mother's sister Linnie Jane
(Joslin) Burks, who served over 40 years as a missionary in Nigeria
alongside her husband Dr Edgar Burks. One, "Twilight in Kentucky" was
composed while on vacation while "Getting Older" came after they retired
from the field. "Life at Three" was penned while thinking of her
brother Rex Edward Joslin whose birthday we celebrate in November.
Our friend, John I. Blair, recently underwent complicated
surgery but now home from Hospital and rehab, shares three poems. The
encores "Don't Leave Love for Tomorrow," and "Don't Be Fooled By The
Sunshine," appear with his "Almond Eyes" which is new to our pages
although composed a few years ago.
Marilyn Carnell's "Sifoddling Along" recalls her weddings and
mentions some financial comparisons with such rites currently. "Woo
Woo" columnist Pauline Evanosky pens an interesting piece on
"Acceptance." Melinda Cohenour's recipe for her Chicken Al Fredo is
detailed in "Cooking with Rod's Family." Some primary info about
tracking family DNA using online documentation sites, is shown in
Melinda's "Armchair Genealogy." Judith Kroll author of "On Trek" is
discussing the last thing we most likely do.
Mattie Lennon of Dublin, Ireland, gives the reviews for two
popular new books: "Not Making Hay" and "Out of The Blue...Pink." While
Thomas F. O'Neill's column "Introspective" discusses his former
occupation: Teaching in China. Mike Craner does his "Mike's Place"
column with his unique style. Welcome always, Mike.
Here at home in our western Texas desert area, we face
November hoping for a mild temperature season known as Fall. We are
always happier with sunshine and only a few fluffy clouds, but have
learned it isn't our wishes that determine the weather, so we stick to
doing something lovely like this issue of "Pencil Stubs Online."
With the continued excellent guidance and support of our esteemed webmaster/co-founder Mike Craner, we shall
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