During rainy days, instead of sitting back and reading or watching TV, I let that Puritan work ethic define most of the hours as I discover ...

Have you ever paid for love?  I think that is what I was doing last night but not consciously.  Really.  I invited my daughter out with her ...

While I pay people to work in my yard I also spend time doing hard labor in others' yards.  Last week work was done on the Children'...

I wrote that I was alone on Easter, but that was not exactly true.  I had a yardman and his younger brother working on our vast front and ba...

Home alone on this Easter morning while hubby is on travel for the week.  Daughter and family are celebrating in Florida and son and DIL per...

When you move into a new house you find your budget is pretty much depleted.  So, sometimes you put off getting things like drapes or window...

I went out today with a group of volunteer ladies that work regularly on the nearby museum grounds.  I had become in involved in this volunt...

There is something in my family's genes about getting old that makes us determined to proved we are not.  I remember well the time my 80...

This time in the early spring morning the world is in a waking dream.  The birds sing gently.  The surface of the river is like a clear, per...

While pot smoking is being legalized, and where not legal, legal consequences are being reduced across the United States, I went to a pot pa...

Joints. Lots of them all over the place. Some are even new to me. They do not move.  They ache. Yes, THOSE joints.  I have washed d...

I used to feel I wanted to be touched. I waited for not only the physical whispering touch on the palm of my hand, but the sweeping t...

Spring began to venture into our neck of the woods this weekend.  On the turn of a dime it went from 40F to 70F in a matter of hours.  And w...

Not to beat a dead horse on women's rights but...regarding equal pay for equal work: "...Beth Cubriel, executive director of the ...

I have just spent the better part of this early morning (4:30 A.M.) looking through my past posts to see if I ever blogged about my last day...

A number of years ago I was crossing the lobby in a fancy hotel in Cairo, Egypt, to see if our reservation was ready.  It had been a rou...

There are too many poor people in this world. There are too many people with physical and mental challenges. There are too many ignor...

What I posted a few days ago did stir a ripple or two among my readers and that is perfect, because what in the heck is blogging all abo...

One of my volunteer groups had its beginning planning meeting yesterday.  Some of us had not seen each other for months during the winte...

For the first time in decades I watched the Oscar program from beginning to end.  We had a pending snow storm with a predicted start big tim...