There are more days lately when I ponder at the strange hands that have attached themselves to my arms.  The skin has thinned around the bo...

As I have written before, I keep this blog site somewhat anonymous. It is mostly for my own freedom of thought. I do not have to second g...

I am married to a man who is not a Luddite.  He understands the importance of technology to improve accuracy, speed processes, make discove...

Many arguments regarding changes and laws proposed this past few years in Congress have repeatedly been held against the yardstick of the ...

I have once again conned my husband into following me down the path on a new project. We are both taking a class on birding given at the l...

Once again Tabor encounters an eye-opening cultural event as she runs errands.  This time she was in the local Target department store tryi...

The scene is a small town post office (one that is not closing) where I am picking up my mail. Just around the corner I hear the voice of a...

During my preteen and teenage years growing up on a chore-filled small farm in rural Colorado I longed to be anywhere else.  The world was ...

I am was staying in the hoitty toitty Palm Beach area of Florida.  The mansions are multi-million dollar monstrosities, the shopping i...

I am on travel but always thinking of my readers and wanted to share this screen saver for those for whom spring seems a bit late.  This...

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. ...