Did you ever stop and look at yourself in the moment and think ... "I never thought I would be this cliche." ?  Perhaps most of...

Our week's vacation with three little ones and their parents located near an amusement park, a water park,  and four historical parks is...

Sunrise to sunset working on a schedule.  Spending time with schedule junkies, amusement park junkies, restaurant junkies, swimming pool jun...

Good, better, best, Never let it rest, Until the good is better, And the better is best. Or....if it is not your life at stake, You ca...

I am tired of the naysayers.  Those who are the first to tell us why we cannot do something to fix something to test new waters.  Those who ...

I was going to avoid posting travel photos, because I do tend to feel a little like Betty White who when discovering that people posted thei...

Last weekend we celebrated Father's Day, yes, early.  My daughter had planned a long weekend away in a (another) state campground at som...

Not blogging since I was away for the long weekend because I had a bunch of laundry to do, a bunch of email to delete, a bunch of bills to p...

More on the theme of my prior posts, living and dying. I had a big crush on a certain guy in my younger years and this conversation w...

Two months ago one of our volunteers started giving so much of her time to the various group's projects.  When I asked about it to ...

She is small and wrinkled like a blonde raisen, with dark button eyes intense in their observation of those heads close to hers.  There is a...

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 ...