Ronnie at Time Goes By and Rain at Rainy Day Thoughts both wrote about aging and all its discomforts and our honesty with that.  So I had t...

Once we have checked out how the garden is doing and put to permanent sleep the weeds that have been awakened by spring we sometimes get th...

My heart goes out to the family of the Army Staff Sgt. that I wrote about in the poem in the earlier post.  They suffer so much when he is ...

  Red tulip petals fall to the ground Not as precious as the splash of blood on desert sand, But lovely in their death no less. ...

As a young girl coming of age I never had money for records and popular music was not on TV quite yet. I did have a little transistor radi...

The boot is off and I have been instructed to keep exercise and hiking at bay for another 3 weeks. But I feel free at last. So, to celebr...

When I built this expensive house (while I am not part of the 1% I did save substantial money by living overseas for several years) I kn...

I have developed a schizophrenic personality. I have hated this boot and all the compromises that it has made me make.  Spring is teasing ...

I read the book that the scientific writer in this video wrote and it is very compelling but not as much as this video.  Since I had Lymes ...

Since I have been doing nothing and thinking too much (RL, marine lawsuits, etc.) I will provide (as Jon Stewart says) a moment of Zen. ...

As I am on my own for two more days (hubby has met up with the kids and their kids at Disney World and they are sooo happy to meet him an...

I have been alone since February 24 and will be alone until late on March 3 or mid-day on March 4th.  For those of you who live alone regul...

A Slower Pace

... and I am proud of that fact!

"Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from...

In the United States on the third Monday of the month of February we celebrate a holiday called President's Day.  This day was set asid...

I do so need to move this election on. I do not live in a state that is being bombarded with election ads. As anyone who reads this blog ...

It didn't take long. Two spam comments to older posts on this blog. But since I have comment moderation on for older posts they did n...

I went back to the old interface and saved the remove word verification process .  Would you all let me know if this works.  I will leave th...

Grannie mentioned in a recent comment to my post below that she had ordered a baked sweet potato as part of her Valentine's dinner last...