Cathy's Turning Leaves

I wasn’t sure how to start this post, so I think I’ll just start with the backstory. It was the early 90s and I was homeless for the umpteenth time. My mother wanted me to come here, but Charles wouldn’t let me. He had made no secret since I was a child that he “hated my guts” (his words). I wasn’t his biological daughter and he made sure I didn’t forget that. Then someone gave my mother an old travel trailer. It was about 60 or 70 years old and had seen better days. It was parked way in the back, near the barnyard. My mother talked Charles into letting…

(IMAGE HEAVY POST) So many scams on Facebook. So many people miss the warning signs and fall for them! They’re easy to spot if you learn what to look for. The scammers use fake profiles. The groups they join are public so the post can be shared by the uninitiated. What do they get out of it? In the case of a lost pet, kind hearted people will message them, offering to send them money to help care for the pet that they don’t have possession of anyhow. They post random tear-jerking pictures they find on the internet, designed to get a response. It’s not always injured pets they found.…

Will people ever learn that just because a meme says it, it’s not automatically true? Variations of this are going all over the internet. Learn the Real Story In 1932, Congress decided to replace Lady Liberty’s image with George Washington on the US quarter. Several sculptors submitted designs, including one by artist Laura Gardin Fraser. The following is Laura and her submission: But John Flanagan’s design was chosen instead. Over the next several decades, sometimes Washington faced the phrase in question, and sometimes not. I don’t remember ever hearing any objection to where “In God We Trust” was positioned. In 2020. the U.S. Mint announced the American Women Quarters Program.…