While fantasy is one of my writing fortes, and I love writing fantasy and I love dragons, this blog adventure is a fact-finding mission...

History repeats itself time and again. (You’d think mankind would learn!!!) Fertilizer happens. (Okay, I’ll type it: “shit” happens.)...

Last week’s blog was on the “storm of the century” for a portion of Northwest Michigan. It was interesting, yet bizarre to be living...

Storms. Some of us are scared to death of them (astraphobia) – for good reason – and some of us love them. I had a friend who was...

So, I’m sitting in a doctor’s office writing because I can. And because this is probably the umpteenth time I’ve waited in a doctor’s...

The Fourth of July. What does it mean to you? Is it just another holiday? Is it a bunch of history you were/are forced to learn every...

My family could very well be chuckling over my title, as our grandfather called his grandchildren “coots”. Which we, as adult...

I’m sure we all have special memories of our grandmothers (and grandfathers, but we’re discussing grandmas today). One may have been...

A little more scribbling on the Word for the Day. To revamp: my husband worked in construction for many years, and their "word for the...

Innerversible – that’s like, you know, inside out and reversible, right? No? Yes, you are correct; innerversible is not an actual word....

A while back, I wrote for a local newspaper, and many of my favorite articles were the biographies I wrote on various people. The older...

If you’ve ever gone stone or “beach” glass hunting, you know it is a lovely way to “waste” an afternoon. What’s better than wandering...

This is not an opinion page to pressure anyone into taking my views. I hope you see it as an opportunity to think and possibly rethink...

Competition can egg us on to a level of greatness we might not otherwise attain. It can also make us unkind (that’s said in the kindest...

I dare you to google these different species to see them. They are pretty fascinating. There are so many wonderful, interesting things on...

I chose this email address – well, honestly, it just came to me – to make it easier to remember. I started with the beginning of my last...

We had our grandsons for the past week, so, needless to say, random things were frequently spoken in Dr. Seuss language or at least they...

You know when you’re having a conversation with someone and you don’t know what the meaning is for one of the words they said? For...

Does anyone still do the April Fool’s Day jokes? I remember it being kind of a big thing when I was growing up. It was the one day of the...

Yeah, you know how when you were a kid, there was this aunt who you only saw like once a year who always came up to you and all your...