Hawaii long ago lost the Polynesian Aloha that we are told is there in brochures and photos. It is a friendly but sterile place to holiday i...

I have a told in my tose, I tant breed...I resolve to stop kissing cute faces with snot running down them!

Our trip in Hawaii included several hikes along the coast or over the high ridges of those jewel-purple mountains. There were many bird sigh...

Son is coming for Christmas Eve dinner and then we are on our way to see King Kong tonight. I have been anticipating seeing this for months...

What a rush I am having. I can't believe that I have done this! Well, let me begin at the beginning. By that, I mean beginning about ...

Well, as I anticipated, the trip wa s a little crazy in the beginning due to using free miles, this meant we left at strange times and took...

300 digital pictures later! Really didn't want to come back. Will blog about it later, since today is my birthday! Happy birthday to ...

View of Honolulu from Roundtop I am leaving on a jet plane (Oooo, sounds like an old favorite song of my youth) early on Saturday. Friday I...

By my way of thinking (and occasionally I do think before I blog) we live in a culture where the look of everything is more important than t...

I think most families find the holidays very mixed, at best. Relationships with relatives and in-laws are not perfect and so we try to be on...

As sometimes happens in life, an action or memory will be followed closely by a coincidental activity that makes you pause. Those of you who...

This is a gift of "candy" from some Japanese colleagues. I am not fond of Asian sweets and I have a feeling that these will not s...

Yesterday afternoon was too nice to stay indoors so I went for a walk in the woods just north of where I live. Most of the leaves were of...

If you are younger than 50 you probably don’t read Ronnie's blog. But she has been writing about ageing for many months now and if you...

The summer that I was twenty-one waiting to begin my first teaching job since graduating from college, I worked at a local K-Mart store. Whi...

Blue Ridge Muse , manababies and others got me inspired this morning. Since I have nothing to say and since pictures speak louder than wo...

Hubby was at a lengthy meeting with scientists from Norway all day yesterday. This is a big meeting where a huge number of scientists in lo...

They let me stop to catch a photo or two. Here is a shot of the grape orchard. This is the rockwall by the garden. Notice how it catches ...