Elaborating on last week’s blog, I was thinking about one of my favorite memories of surgeries (what? there are favorite memories of...

[For anyone who knows us, this is not in the present – no worries.] I am sitting in a surgical waiting room for the sixth time during my...

We sure had a break from typical winter weather the last two months, but when winter came at last, it descended properly with arctic...

While writing a blog on leaf colors last fall, this started coming to me. If I am more right-brained why do my lovely posts often...

Watching scary moves can be detrimental to our sleep. Nights when nightmares, demons, or imaginations run wild... Don’t drink a lot...

Have you ever taken a personality test? Were you surprised by the outcome? I took one once that also had a section that revealed whether...

What? No snow for Christmas – in Michigan? I am afraid it has been known to happen, although not very many times. I remember one year...

I am sitting in a hospital parking lot, waiting for my husband to return from a doctor appointment, so we can run some errands. I’m...

In one of my recent blogs, I said, “I could google it, but I would rather ponder over it.” And that got me thinking about the way things...

If you have ever attended Manistee Michigan’s Victorian Sleighbell Parade, you know how special it is. It’s a step into the past,...

A turkey that sings “Feliz Navidad”? Don’t we just get our holidays all jumbled together? Especially the stores? Winter clothes on the...

Many years ago, I read an article written by a marriage counselor on the key to a great marriage. The counselor, wanting to know why some...

Maybe you are a Type A, run-around-everyone-else kind of person and your spouse/partner is a one-thing-at-a-time tortoise kind of person....

Lovebirds…finches always seem to be in twos – and later in threes – in our yard. I am not sure if they are a couple, and then later dad,...

Ghosts, witches, pumpkins, clowns, or favorite fictional characters – who will you be for Halloween this year? Do you dress up? Have you...

You are probably wondering where I got the title for this week’s blog. My husband’s dad. “I'm off to the Jelly Bums” was his way of...

If you are a visual person, you probably look at the pictures I post with my blogs before reading them. I am a visual person, so the...

When discussing the raising of children, I have often said, “God made toddlers so stinking cute and loveable (no pun on dirty diapers,...

September and October in Michigan. Harvest Moons, corn mazes, trees creating spectacular landscapes, crisp, clear, sweet air, last hikes...

For about seven years after my father died, we lived in my aunt and uncle’s house. It was a classy, old farm house with several...