I have always had a love affair with words. Beginning as an early reader at 3, I took my favorite books everywhere with me in place of a se...

Some people cut a little brush and others cut a lot of deadfall. The tree trimmers came today. We did NOT cut any live trees, only the dea...

I awoke at 6:00 from the demands of our Cardinal, Don Quixote, tapping at the window at the bedroom patio door reminding me I can never sl...

'Seth' is a very dignified elder with a carefully groomed handle-bar mustache and a very gentle and gentlemanly demeanor. He did t...

A colleague asked me to join facebook several weeks ago and as a result I have learned a few things: I find it a real time sink, because pa...

Company is coming to stay overnight this weekend to visit and perform a house blessing Hawaiian style . ( I wonder if I need to get out that...

I always thought that over-sugered, obnoxious kids would not be my cup of tea. BUT, it looks like Valentine's Day breaks all the rules...

I started this blog to track the important times and thoughts in my life and maybe to help me build a road map as to where I am (or should b...

"Did I tell you how thankful I am that you are coming. My life in insane right now. Xman still needs to make two more valentines by ...

"Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it, the tree is th...

I stopped dying my hair in December of this year. I saw no point in trying to look younger than I am since I no longer worked in an offic...

Our house was completed (mostly) in June of 2007. Within the past month I have noticed two doors in this house that are sticking at the top ...

When you have been married as long as I have, and I have been married a lot longer than I ever thought people could tolerate each other, it...

Bob Brady at PureLandMountain featured this article about the human brain in a recent post. Since my blogfriend at One Woman's Jo...

1. A recent quote by Thomas L. Friedman in an Op-Ed column of the New York Times regarding the recent work of Congress in approaching the ...

Kenju has a meme going on her blog. She encouraged her readers to follow it. Since I am brain dead this morning but felt like posting som...

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 ...

Hubby woke up in the middle of the night with the worst intestinal pain ever. At first we thought it was the curried shrimp I had made fo...

(Click on photo for larger view) If you read my other blog , as I am sure many people cannot resist doing in their free time, you will notic...