During the years my husband and I raised our children, we joined the community band for a few years. It was our time to be people instead...

One of my daughters, after she moved out of Michigan, said the one thing she missed most was autumn and the beauty of the turning of the...

Do you remember the first drawing you did that put a thrill in your heart? Or maybe it was the first story you remember writing (mine was...

I'm sitting on our patio with my computer on my lap for the umpteenth time this summer, feeling grateful that I have such a wonderful...

Butterflies. I promise, this is not another insect blog, even though I think most of us love butterflies. I kept seeing them flitting...

Healthy Layers of Pain – Part II Continuing on with how to grieve our losses. Writing about grief can be difficult as losing our...

When you’re around someone who quite recently lost a loved one, do you feel uncomfortable or find it hard to know what to say or do? Some...

Last week I had fun with a number of meteorological terms. Like why do they call meteorologists meteorologists? What has weather got to...

Let’s have a little fun today with the weather. If you’re a Michigander, you know how fun the weather can be. Not only can it change as...

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....