In dealing with Mother Nature I have learned that it is all about balance. Having been both a wife and mother I think I understand about ba...

My grandson came to visit last weekend (Father's Day) and it seemed that all of the reptiles in our yard wanted to make his visit compl...

In one of my first jobs I worked with a public services agency and did most of my work on the computer. Since I had just come from the mom ...

When the day is ending it means you get a fresh start once again. It means that you can rest with the knowledge that you battled well and m...

Remember that look that your mother gave you when you had stepped out of line? Remember that look that said 'I am NOT going to wait unti...

After one of the more torrential thunderstorms had cleared a few weeks ago, we were rewarded with the view above from our dock. Actually, t...

Friko tagged me for a meme a few days ago. I don't usually play along, but I have just gotten back from a funeral and am not yet in goo...

We are back from the Tampa/St.Petersburg area in Florida. The tourist season is slow and the tourist beaches were not crowded. The daily t...

I hate the fact that I am entering that time in life where the goodbyes are more often of a permanent nature. Everyone has had to bravely pa...

Dictionary.com has over 15 definitions for the word 'stuff'. Clearly we are lazy and use this word a lot. Not as much a f***, but ...

I hereby declare today "Tabor's Blog Silly Day." I think my brain is slowly melting from the increasingly warmer weather and ...

Years ago when I was in junior high school my English teacher assigned me the book by E. B. White titled "One Man's Meat." I r...

Sometimes I just can't help myself. While spending time babysitting with my grandchildren I was watching another little boy chase ducks ...

Everyone needs a quiet corner or a small space that sits waiting for them at the end of the day...waiting with 'open arms.' It does ...

Weary Hag posted the following questions on her blog a while back. She has taken a respite from blogging and rarely posts anything, so I...

In a prior post I wrote about how I fix things... at night... in bed...while I am trying to fall asleep. In reality, I do not have a lot of...

My husband has been gone for several days on a business 'junket' to Hawaii. I have eaten all the leftovers that were sitting in the ...

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 am married to someone with a magnetic personality. He can stand in line waiting for tickets to the movie theater and come across an old ...

You know that it has been raining way too many days when you wander into the kitchen to turn out the overhead light and realize it is the su...