While the younger half of our bunch were in grade school, including me, we had a big, old, three-car garage (yes, it was often dusty)...

My husband, Dave, remembers every car they owned while he was growing up. He can still hear his dad telling him jokingly that the car...

When I was a child, my uncle owned an antique car, something along the lines of a 1940’s or '50’s Plymouth sedan. It was one of those...

When you go to new places, looking across vistas or up a staircase as it wraps around higher and higher, what do you see and think? Is...

Writers are (or should be) taught to notice things, to look deeper, to make up – and write down – whatever comes to mind and to see...

Have you ever been driving on a dark-saturated country road at night and pulled over when an open area with no buildings or lights met...

What to do when we give someone chance after chance to accept our love, and they continue to hurt us? Day after day, year after year,...

Doesn’t it drive you crazy when you are in the middle of conversing with someone and the point you were going to make literally drops...

It is amazing how much you can get out of a picture, especially when you start with one theme and you accidentally create another theme,...

One day when my memories came up in Google photos (thank God my memories are somewhere!), I saw a picture of a castle window wherein the...

OK, so I wrote the original The Year of Unending Winter a few years ago, but I like the title, so I’m using it for a third time/winter....

Sometimes I have to question myself as to why I think the things I think, and how on earth did I get started on the topic that I am...

During the winter when we were kids, some of my siblings and I would go behind the grapevine arbor to this hollow that lay between trees...

These days a lot of people have enough money to buy what they want and what they need whenever they need or want it. So coming up with...

I’ve been reliving a lot of memories lately. Some lovely, some difficult or painful. The lovely ones bring a smile to my face and joy in...

Back in the day when we only had landline phones, so we couldn’t carry our phones around with us and there was no texting, googling, etc....

This is part III on my aging probe; I've had some fun with it the past two weeks, but this week is more of an understanding of the...

How do you know when bad weather is coming? You feel it in your bones. Depending on your age or physical health, it could be your whole...

When I look down at my hands, I try to talk myself into acknowledging that I am sliding rather rapidly into an old lady. Usually, it...

My computer’s desktop picture, which is the photo I used for this week's blog, is one of my favorite drawings by one of my grandsons. I...