We are on our way to a new year.  A year that we fill with hopes, dreams, passions and successful ideas.  We tuck it tightly under ou...

What a bitter afternoon this has been.  After a fall of calm and moderate weather the winds have decided to howl and throw biting rain at m...

I drove back from daughter's house with a sick husband who toughed it out because he did not want to miss their Christmas.  All three g...

May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; The spirit of Christmas which is peace; The heart of Christmas which is love. ~Ada...

Just like that aberration in the same-named movie, the fly started annoying with a soft buzz on her right side.  She had just settled down ...

Thus far today my birthday has proceeded according to a typical plan. Last night my granddaughter, who is staying at my house this wee...

It is like my private pool, All white and big enough for two to meet. It lies alone most days Waiting for my attention. I fi...

Fix your face she said. He wiped the smile away. She sat on the couch and focused her attention on the re-run. It was just a squirrel ...

This will be the last post on my project for a while.   I will try to provide more interesting fodder for my readers on other subjects in f...

Is it a good (?) thing that this motivation has continue to stay with me over the days? (If you are in a fog...see two prior posts.)  I am ...

Writing the beginning story post below is like casting a net.  It keeps getting caught on so many rocks and shells and such. I have to rese...

Amelia had finally made the break.  She was at long last able to set her course for freedom and independence, far from the confines of her...

They once were unique and individual.  Some tall, some short, some medium.  They were thin and fat and muscular and lanky.  Their hair was ...

(My guy readers can skip this one.) Many years ago a stand-up comedian Roseann Barr had her own television show.  It was the counterpoint...

Whew. Everyone  has eaten too much food and they have finally left in their cars, one family to head home and decorate their house and the...

I sometimes have holidays filled with guests, friends and relatives. Some holidays are quiet as I try to get through them by avoiding the...

Kerredelune brought this to my attention.  Get yourself something 'cool' to drink, put your feet up and listen to this: Manhatte...

I have been watching a retro TV show called Route 66   while resting my ankle in the afternoons. Route 66 was a famous highway in American ...

"In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others," according to ...

Many years ago when my son was a teenager just a year away from college, we had reached that stage that some families reach where you a...