Gladys Taber
Gladys Taber
Gladys Bagg Taber, author of 59 books, including the Stillmeadow books, and columnist for Ladies' Home Journal and Family Circle, was born in Colorado Springs on April 12, 1899, and spent most of her early years moving because of her father's work as a mining engineer. She lived in New Mexico, California, Illinois and Wisconsin, and spent time on her grandfather's farm in Massachusetts. Later, she received a bachelor's degree from Wellesley in 1920 and an M.A. from Lawrence College...
cat house
Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.
real age growing
The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.
rain fall night
Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.
friendship discovery personality
Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.
happiness
Happiness is a thing of now.
valentine thinking should-have
Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.
june giving wish
If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.
dream june tangible
June in New England is like a lover's dream made tangible.
discovery perception life-is
Life is a process of discovery, of new perceptions.
morning attitude hatred
My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.
long life-is window
As long as you have a window, life is exciting.
father taxpayers taxes
Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.
peace fighting population
What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?
air wind caves
November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.