Yesterday I went to a wine festival. I haven't attended one of these in a decade and discovered in my old age that my palate can get q...

A month ago I heard Jim Webb, best selling author, on National Public Radio talk about America's current situation. I liked so much wh...

After much anxiety these past days, I am pretty much against the bailout unless it goes directly to citizens who are losing their houses o...

A long while back I posted a story about the flooding of my house during a tropical storm in this blog entry. This story took place just 1...

My husband was able to take some time off during his business trip to visit South Point on the Big Island of Hawaii. This point is the s...

For those of you who have passports, can you remember the first time you got yours? I can. I was heading out to live in Palau, Micrones...

The fact that my husband is again off to Hawaii means once again I can enjoy a free schedule and alone time. Thus I finished the apples a...

I am trying to stay out of blogging about this election because I am so passionately opinionated and concerned...but Bill has a good blog r...

This weekend we stopped by the Gettysburg National Military Park which has a brand new museum and visitor center, much of it is funded by N...

Hanna must have dumped a lot of rain and not much wind. We don't have a rain gauge, but this storm left far less damage and mess than...

They are talking about winds of 25-35 and gusts up to 50 MPH. Moved all the outside furniture and took the boat out of the water. Had to...

There is clearly not enough joy shown by me in my life and the older I get the less it rears its orange head. There are common places to fi...

After hours of finagling and testing I downloaded the alOt toolbar into Firefox in order to both search and view videos and it seems to be...

I got back yesterday and totally collapsed. Napped on the couch for about an hour in the afternoon and then watched chick flicks and ate s...

I learned and did so many new things this week that they will fill my Thursday Thoughts for a long time: 1) One of the most special times...

Sometimes the stars are aligned perfectly, the gods are satisfied with their place in the universe, Mother Earth is taking a little zenful...

Company (my kids) should be here in less than an hour. Hubby has harvested the last batch of crab and I am steaming them as I type this blo...

This next week I will be taking care of my grandson, Xman, since his Montessori school has closed for 8 days. My daughter took off from wo...

I have not had much energy nor any ideas for blogging lately, but probably exhausted due to the following activities: Celebrating my grand...

That's all I have to say. I went away for the weekend and the deer did not eat my roses, but blogger ate my blog list.