What’s “all about the lights”? If you asked my husband, he would say, “Don’t follow the lights.” A direct quote from Gollum – or Tolkien,...

My six-month-old grandson is jumping in his Johnny Jump-Up next to me as I type. I look up and smile and talk to him now and then to let...

The main reason for flying for me has been to visit family. While I am proud of my children going out into the world and making a place...

“To ride on the wings of air…” [A King for the Castle – by Colleen Ferguson] Is there a Superhero on the loose or just an adventurous...

When I think of childhood Thanksgivings, there are two memories that tend to jump up at me. The first one was a play one of us wrote – or...

A house and yard that engendered imaginations and bred fantasy worlds and characters, encouraged artists' minds with beauty and light and...

A number of my growing up years were lived in a house and surrounding yard that showed me the magic of lives that had been and so could...

If someone asks you if you know what something is (i.e. a strange noise or music coming from outside) and you have no idea what it is,...

What kind of tree cannot be broken, chopped, sawed, burned or destroyed by anything mankind tries to throw at it? It’s a tree that people...

Rainbows on kittens and bright knitted mittens…what? Do you ever mix up your lyrics? You start humming a song and break out in verse, but...

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...