Our country neighborhood recently got a new restaurant...an Olive Garden.  Now if you live in the city you are thinking...yeah, big deal?  B...

A long time ago in a land far, far away a Queen without servants would now and again feel the need for some celebration organization such as...

It can be a perfectly new and untarnished spring morning with so much potential. You can be blissfully sipping coffee and innocently chec...

I should be happy and relieved today since millions of Americans will soon be able to get the same or similar health care to mine.  Amer...

I wrote this post a week or so before I started reading Danah Boyd's PhD dissertation titled Taken Out of Context:  American Teen Societ...

This is the view from the window of the condo where we stayed.  We did not get the (more) expensive ocean view side, but the view of th...

(Brief interruption of my tedious Florida travel log...you can leave and go to the bathroom.) I like to think that my love of photog...

As I mentioned in the prior post our drive into Florida was challenging.  It seemed that the cold wet front followed us all the way to ...

While in Savannah the "Peacemaker Ship" was in the harbor. I know very little about this religious group that calls themselves th...

Even though the wind was bitterly cold in both Charleston and Savannah, we did peek into some of the traditional courtyard gardens that ...

Savannah has managed to hang on to its wonderful charm in spite of the pressures to 'develop or die' that all historic cities face. ...

(Needless to say, my last post left my dozen readers curious...just mention s*x and the browsing becomes careful reading...well, maybe some ...

Just before I start my North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida travel reminiscing posts, I am feeling the need to post a little bit about my li...

Returned from my cool spring days visiting in Florida. Weather was in the high 40's to high 50's and only hit the 60's on one d...

Before we left for Florida I got to spend snow time with my two most favorite little munchkins.  One child loves the snow and we couldn...

I am in Florida trying to thaw my frigid bones as this post is being published.   It seemed that almost every weekend that we headed into...

I was trying to remember how I felt about my appearance when I was in my twenties, just married, and not bogged down by the demands of small...

Some people say that statistics lie.  Depending on how they are presented, they can frequently tell more than one story.  The same is tru...