(Musings based on Colleen's approach to Thursdays. I do have 13 this time and snub my nose at superstition.) 1) Watching the Cavuto s...

I have been spending every weekend running errands for the housebuilding, or socializing with my grandson and his family, or trying to get l...

This work week has been unnaturally long and demanding. I am not a bureaucrat and trying to fake it is killing me. I came from the world o...

Ask you can see from the photo above, my patience paid off. It took me almost another hour, but once I was down to a few tangles the resolut...

Indonesian Red Cross Society | UNICEF Indonesia | Mercy Corps | Caritas | Save The Children | Direct Relief International | Oxfam | H...

Most handy homeowners have a favorite little one-stop store that they visit on the weekends in the spring. In small towns it is a local hard...

Sometimes I find that my life is running in a theme. Or perhaps not. Perhaps I just see things with a different skew depending on events. I ...

Some days it's more like shovels of dirt through the manhole and I am in it. When did this kid get his driver's license?

I received a ‘guide’ in the mail yesterday. It was titled “Home Guide to Emergency Preparedness.” Photo above is of the first page. Nothing ...

I have probably explained this habit of mine before, but I will tell about my relationship (addiction) with Amaryllis plants. Over the years...

I am sure that I will end up naming a number of posts like this with the same name, since this is what I do in the spring---walk in the wood...

This is a photo of my son taken years ago in Indonesia. The woman on the right was my cook. The location is Jogjakarta just off of Kaliruang...

Omen is a short but powerful word, filled with shadow and potent possibility. When I ‘Googled’ the word to see the scope of definitions, it ...

One of the characteristics of aging is that you tend to read more health news because you want to live forever. I have been doing so and my...

It appears even water birds can be two-sided depending on how you approach them...just like people.

It seemed that we had actually become settled in our new place on the side of the mountain just off of Kaliurang Road in Yogyakarta, Indone...

Exhausted from spending the Saturday before Mother’s Day cooking several meals for incoming relatives so that your daughter, who is a new m...

So the trip down to Hilton Head WAS a little long. Mom got a little creative in trying to distract the hunger pains. Once we had unpacked ...

I have filled in the "Where I am From Template" and while not completely happy, I am sending it forward like a newborn baby with ...