My 7-year-old grandson is visiting us this week. He had a free week from his summer schedule and we are thrilled to be able to share this t...

Two days of intense and painful swollen neck glands and a knife sharp pain on one side of my throat when I swallow has been the way Thursday...

I somehow got on this dining memory streak and because the writing muse has totally gone on a long vacation deep into the heart of some bla...

(Brief interruption of my tedious Florida travel log...you can leave and go to the bathroom.) I like to think that my love of photog...

Just before I start my North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida travel reminiscing posts, I am feeling the need to post a little bit about my li...

It began with the request by hubby to invite a couple to dinner.  Tabor was not exactly excited about this burp in her weekly plans.  Than...

A number of years ago, when I knew that my daughter was close to becoming engaged and my son was close to graduating from college, and I was...

I was doing some spring cleaning, dusting shelves, and pulled one of the ancient photo albums aside and decided to look for this photo. A p...

Art requires angst doesn't it?. How many artists are also crazy and need that craziness to feed their art? This table missing the ...

I am listening to the Superbowl theme music as I sit at the computer and write this entry. I am not a football fan and I have no intention ...

Years ago, when I was living in Indonesia, I spent much time discovering many wonderful temples and architectural wonders in this exotic cou...

The restaurant she had selected was a high-end seafood chain located in the Galleria near the more expensive stores. She had hoped that the ...

As some readers may recall, we left our newly married royal couple in a small cabin in the woods as the night was falling in the tropical fo...

A long time ago (38 years) in a land far, far away (Hawaii) a young prince of a man and a young princess of a woman met and fell in love. Th...

The ghost of Mary Lee Many bloggers , especially those who have been posting for a number of years, have had an opportunity to meet and gre...

Fear is a really useful but also dangerous energy in this life. (The most obvious recent example of the bad things fear can do is the 100...

I may do windows, but I don't do lawns. For some exotic reason I have avoided mowing lawns my entire married life. We have had both ...

Onward and Upward For a number of months, if not a number of years, I have imagined my first day of retirement. I kept thinking that the ve...

Living on a remote island in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean requires depending on your resourcefulness almost all the time. The sto...

Hubby is in Korea for a month or so and I am alone (except for noisy and nice contractors finishing the basement) at the house on the weeke...