There were interesting comments on my prior post.  I just wanted to clarify that I was not against the Afghan immigrants moving here, workin...

I was at a LARGE eyeglasses shop trying to select new frames for my new prescription.  I update my glasses about once every 5 or 6 years bec...

This photo below illustrates what this worker bee feels like as my days start to open up with more time. I find a cool green place and j...

(This post is lengthy but important so please take time to read it all the way through.) I am pretty sure that the average person has a pr...

My loyal readers know that I have been drowning in responsibilities these past weeks. First we finished the Green Exposition by staffing (...

Slowing down and finishing the big lists.  But. I will return like a bad penny, a nasty mosquito, an enduring allergy...soon.

I will be spending most of the day at the Children's Garden tomorrow as part of an environmental expo for the county.  I will be on my f...

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...