My Thursday Thirteen because: I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...( Colleen Redmen always gets it tight and right with her ...

Tragedy is all in perception and even perspective. Perhaps when you are shell-shocked for years having the blood of another tragedy at yo...

Questionnaire 1.  How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade?  Please name your pref...

I am certainly blessed with the presence of my daughter in my life.  We live an hour and a half away, but do manage to see each other as o...

The saying that 'life can change on a dime' is familiar to many of us.  I searched the Internet to see where this expression ca...

I cannot think of anything to write about. Hubby has been gone on a long trip and returning shortly.  I have gotten down to wandering ar...

I was trying to work through the 1,000's of photos that I keep taking and then collecting.  I was trying to be honest and delete most o...

While assisting my 2-year-old granddaughter (shy of 3 by only 2 months) with her daily duties, we got to talking in the bathroom...where w...

A few weeks ago my husband discovered that I had accidentally purchased not one but two bags of lemons. There they sat in the fruit bin...

If you close your eyes and remember this past winter...I know you don't want to go there, but stay with me... perhaps you will remembe...

Cleaning out the garage the other day I decided to wash out all those buckets and containers full of gardening stuff.  Resealed or re-wrap...

Volunteers are like full blown roses.  They arrive with energy and expectations (perhaps inaccurate), but expectations none the less, that...

If you are the kind of optimistic person who carefully plants seeds in the cold dark days of late winter and places them on heating pads ...

When you have nothing in your fried brain it is nice to be able to regurgitate your brilliance that was dumped onto the Internet in prior...

Make some tea or some cool lemonade and come walk with me though my spring garden. I am REALLY lucky this spring that not much has eaten...

If my daughter says she is coming for the weekend I tend to over-plan. I head out to the grocery for kid-friendly snacks, make sure linens a...

When I was a child I remember how rare candy was at my house.  It was rare because of cost, not so much the enforcement toward healthy eat...

For some weird reason we decided to use the rest of the tax refund (i.e. that free loan that you give to Uncle Sam, AND in our case, the...

Discovery and serendipitous cleaning are some of the hallmarks of the time spent in wandering one's house post-visit of toddlers.  On...

The local theatre brochure arrives by post. I peruse and mark those entertainments that look promising. Unfolding the town paper, I scan...