I started with a Friday night red-eye flight against the sun and landed in the morning of  the next day in my vacation country, staying t...

Leaving on our trip tomorrow.  Checking out the webcam to see the "ocean view" we might have on our second day "there....

I am getting ready for a trip (yes ANOTHER travel opportunity) and I am doing a little jig about it.  I just read somewhere that some rental...

My husband an I too rarely take advantage of the many activities in nearby Washington, DC.  It is over an hour's drive and we have to st...

Most of us get a lot of landfill in our mailboxes. If you contribute to even one charity or political action group you get on the mailin...

I just finished reading the autobiography titled My Beloved World (2013) by Justice Sonia Maria Sotomayor.  As the 111th appointment and onl...

Mage challenged me to black and white...more sophisticated and more artistic and something I rarely if ever do because I am a color freak.  ...

Passions come and go and some of them come and never go.  The wonderful thing about retirement (if your family is amenable) you can indulge ...

This HBO writer "The Wire" puts succinctly and with great clarity the argument that should reach a much larger audience.  Please t...

Two sides of the same coin.  One side is smooth and peaceful and the other is detailed and interesting.   One finds days without tasks a ...

We had those 4 young people Friday and Saturday.  The first day was quiet with wine on the dock and good conversation.  A crab and salmon an...

I will be returning my little grandson to his parents tomorrow eve after taking care of him all week.  There are always food issues, but for...

It is early morning just after breakfast and I am sitting on the sofa avoiding as much movement as possible since I seem to have some sharp,...

While I was roaming the land of Big Skies with two of my favorite males, I got "tagged" by Colleen Redman .  I must state that...

I have heard of jet-lag but I think I had become infected with time-lag this trip.  I went from seeing old, old, old, friends where I had de...

So the first Sunday in Colorado was going to be a rather long day.  I had a 50th High School reunion at a local small town restaurant (there...

She is back.  She is thinner!  She is older.  She is much more meditative after spending time with old high school friends and family that s...

Packing for a trip this evening but saw this on the news and was sure that I was losing my mind. "Hours before Congress broke for the...

One reader asked if I was writing a romance novel based on the subject of my last post.  No, I am not a big reader or writer of that genre, ...

Winding down the end of the week with the little granddaughter.  It is Friday morning and she had doughnuts for breakfast and is now watchin...