OLD COWBELLE
Old Cowbelle: Birthdays ... Just Keep Coming!
I don’t like to have any kind of big shin-dig for my birthday; never have.
By Ina Murray, columnist , January 30, 2013
Old Cowbelle: Knitted hats and gun control
Last winter, I enjoyed crocheting prayer shawls. I no longer do, enjoy it or do it. Even though I do have a lot of patience, the prayer shawls take me too long. Maybe I am too slow. I know a friend who can make one in half the time I do.
By Ina Murray, columnist , January 23, 2013
Old Cowbelle: Fantasy Land?
Over a week ago, I finally decided that my Christmas tree must go and I reluctantly removed and packed away its ornaments, and made it ready to set on the East deck.
By Ina Murray, columnist , January 16, 2013
Old Cowbelle: Life's Mysteries
I find myself wondering about so many things. Ordinary things that aren’t really ordinary. Like: looking at those teeny, tiny, spindly little legs on small birds, how can those little legs stand temperatures below zero and not freeze?
By Ina Murray, columnist , January 09, 2013
Old Cowbelle: 2013
I turned the page of my desk calendar to 2013, and there they were. ...31 empty squares staring at me. I seemed to hear them calling to me, saying, “Ok, Old Cow, here we go on to another year; and we are all wondering, how are you going to fill us?”
By Ina Murray, columnist , January 03, 2013
Old Cowbelle: The Spirit Continues
Isn’t it funny how, before and during the Christmas season, most people seem a little kinder, a little more tolerant, have a little more compassion, a little more humor and are a little more patient, than during the rest of the year? Why is that?
By Ina Murray, columnist , December 27, 2012
Old Cowbelle: Advent ... Waiting
How very different the “waiting for Christmas” means to children, from what it means to adults.
By Ina Murray, columnist , December 05, 2012
Old Cowbelle: Breath of Fresh Air!
What a relief it is, in the mailbox and the telephone, and TV, not to have all the political stuff in our faces every day.
By Ina Murray, columnist , November 28, 2012
Old Cowbelle: Traditions
When Thanksgiving approaches, I always think about my Mom, and how she made “preparations” for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, beginning about the second week in November.
By Ina Murray, columnist , November 20, 2012
Old Cowbelle: A New Look for an Old Church
Way, way back, when the red carpet was installed in Our Savior’s church, and other renovations were made, the altar picture was removed and replaced by a huge gold cross. It was beautiful, but for many years I missed the picture of Jesus praying in the garden.
By Ina Murray, columnist , November 15, 2012
Old Cowbelle: Priorities
It’s more fun to write about happy, humorous, silly things in my Cow column, but Hurricane Sandy and its devastation is too big, too important to by-pass.
November 08, 2012
Old Cowbelle: Stuck in the Past?
For me, there are few things more pleasant than relaxing in Husband’s beat up old recliner, snuggled under a warm, fleece “Eagle” throw, with two dogs curled up on their beds asleep at my feet!
By Ina Murray, columnist , October 31, 2012
Old Cowbelle: New Idea? Or Old One?
Over the years, especially when we were a family of six (with extras once in a while), one thing that really irked me, was “tooth paste spit,” lingering in the bathroom sink. Everyone was always in such a hurry, and often failed to rinse the toothpaste “spit” down the drain. So usually I was the one who rinsed it after everyone else was out the door and on their way to here and there. By the time I would get to it, the toothpaste would be dried and stuck there! Yuk.
By Ina Murray, columnist , October 24, 2012
Old Cowbelle: Angels in Overalls
The vicious wrangling that we hear between the political parties and their candidates gets really tiresome. Actually, it is kind of sad. Why do they have to be that way? I think it’s childish and undignified, unbefitting the highest office in the United States.
October 17, 2012
Old Cowbelle: Daylight Savings Time ends Nov. 4
There is quite a bit of history behind Daylight Saving Time. Check it out on Snopes. It’s interesting.
By Ina Murray, columnist , October 10, 2012
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