It is three in the morning in a dark bedroom and I am on my knees with my face almost to the carpet.  This is not an EAT=PRAY=LOVE moment as...

I am leaving in two days for a 10 hour trip with a car full of toddlers (with colds) and more STUFF than any human deserves or needs...alt...

I somehow got on this dining memory streak and because the writing muse has totally gone on a long vacation deep into the heart of some bla...

I may have written about this a long time ago, but I am thinking not.  When my daughter was an only child (for about 2.5 years) we did a bit...

We borrowed a sailboat and took an afternoon sail. Went looking for ice cream with daughter and caught this image. Not as many but...

Trying to keep track of her is like trying to keep track of that annoying summer fly in the bedroom while you are reading.  She buzzes in an...

The world if full of annoyances which if not ignored will drive us to tearing our hair and screaming into the night sky. So we ignore ...

Here is another take on people that help us. I first met Oscar about 4 years ago when we were putting in our lawn to this new house. (The...

I was thinking about the responses to my last post. If you are a handyman, it is hard to sit back and watch others do the work when you cann...

Middle class folks such as those of my household do not often ask for help on big projects from our neighbors.   In an agrarian society, bar...

In my last post I mentioned that I had been doing some volunteer work for a local environmental group.  This involved hiking a mile through ...

I have not posted because: 1.  My band width for which I pay many sheckles in gold has been painfully diminished the last few days.  It r...

There are people who almost salivate upon entering an antique mall or when given an opportunity to peruse the booths at an antique fair.  T...

Sometimes too much of a good thing is too much of a good thing. All of the days in my life are now Saturdays with only an errand or two on ...

Taking a break from blogging.  My brain is a little fried and I have weeks of activity ahead.  Won't be gone too long.  You cannot get...

I could not have imagined a drift or even catching a tsunamic (yes I made a new word) wave into this community called Bloggers.  Who knew so...

The original in all its glory. Number 1 with wind in the shrubbery hiding the laptop. Made monochrome to hide the shrubbery blur a...

I recently took a stag's leap and loaded some of my photos onto a communal/commercial site called RedBubble.  It exists for artists of a...

The columns of light beamed into the sky during the 9/11 memorial actually had to be turned off for a time because over 45 species of bir...

I think that the one thing I search for as I age and find I actually have time to think  and search is the "Center  aka Balance."...