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...

We’re almost there! It’s the eve before Christmas Eve – don’t you just want to say, “and all through the house, not a creature was...

Covid was (is) a huge “hiccup” in our lives, but in some ways it has given us some unexpected changes that have become a new way of life...

The cold temperatures hovered early in October this year with a good and proper snowstorm mid-November. Since the heat and humidity hung...

Picture it: I am washing some china, getting it ready to switch out with Christmas decorations, and we get a notice from Alexa that there...

Where are you celebrating our “Be Thankful” Day this year? With the ease of travel these days, any one of us could end up pretty much...

We’ve covered gossiping and letting go of other’s opinions. Now we’ll tackle people-pleasers. People pleasing may sound innocuous enough,...

For many of us, it takes a long time to learn to just be ourselves and not worry about what others think of us (and some of us never...

Who said what?! Who told you that?! How do they know it’s true?! Gossip is a poisonous snake, weaving its way through imaginary corridors...

There’s evil magic happening in the world these days. It hovers over everyone, waiting to strike, waiting to set you off in a mad tizzy,...

After posting last week’s beauty/fluffy blog on October, I started looking around and wondering why some trees of the same genus (i.e.:...

Leaves of red, yellow and orange – mottled with leftover greens and evergreens. The slow creeping of color; first a darkening with the...

All the grandparents I know, including myself, are full of unequivocable joy when we cradle those babies, hold a child on our laps, or...