Directions for my three-day weekend...By the way, how was yours? Thursday, January 29, 2014 Evening *        Pick up C around 5pm.  Go ...

Many of us watch the historical/hysterical soap opera Downton Abbey on television.  I enjoy it because of the tremendous attention to cultur...

Got up early with my insomnia to be greeted by this. (yes, I know that I should have brought all this inside long ago!)  Snow has already...

There is word of a major storm in the Northeast.  Newscasters salivated as they interviewed the snowplow drivers, the weather men/women, ...

Our garden group is starting its meetings once again after a two month hiatus.  I find that it takes all my willpower to go forth on these c...

While I was scanning a few of the hundreds of slides that sit in a dozen metal boxes in a cupboard, hundreds of slides that may well be mean...

Hubby got an email the other day from someone he had never met.  She was the niece of a research scientist that he had gone to school with m...

They lay scattered like Legos Across the cluttered space Hard for me to see beginnings and endings Hard for me to judge rhythms and em...

Chiharu Shiota is a Japanese contemporary artist.  It is difficult to find much on her except she was born in Osaka and now lives in Berlin....

I read the article that is linked below and realized that, while I am a more adventurous traveler than many I know, I must keep my fears in ...

Prejudice: a precomposed mindset, a foregone conclusion, seeing something through the smallest of lenses.  We all have our prejudices even t...

My recent visit to the Smithsonian museums before the holidays was fulfilling and exhausting.  One of the venues at the Freer/Sackler galler...

Banging head on desk and wondering why some people cannot find a country with no government where they can go live and leave the rest of us ...

This season is finally winding down.  I 'hate'  do not like this season.  I mean I will forgive you if you love this season of over ...

Winter's shadows on a steel gray afternoon Shadows un-sharpened by the sun Lie softly upon the wooden floor Where ...

May this first few days of your new year start slowly and carefully like the kindling of a winter's fire as you ease into that favo...

Some new global things to ponder as we enter 2015 and to encourage you to make it a resolution to get your head out of the sand.  Yes, the b...

I saw "The Hobbit. The Battle of Five Armies" this past week over the holidays.  It is exactly what the title says it is, so I sho...

My original Christmas card to you.  Please forgive my editing of Luke, but I think that was a typo in the Bible.

The title above is for my husband.  That describes him perfectly.  I am far more complicated and no one would ever give me that title unless...