I am exhausted and restored at the same time.  I am full-up and empty.  I am lost and fully aware of my place in the universe.  I am full of...

I have been blogging a long time and realized that many of you may not have read these posts that I wrote back in 2005.   I should remember ...

Writing is a compulsion for some of us.  We love the tidiness of words that fit like soldiers in a march toward some end and the untidiness ...

(The last of my 3-part series on the Ringling Brothers Circus.)  The main house on the John Ringling estate is quite a eye opener.  John and...

(Some of you wanted to see more....so)  Ringling Brothers Circus today uses two trains that travel simultaneously. Back in the 1950's t...

The news has recently said that the Ringling Brothers Circus was going to phase out its elephants from the circus.  I saw this elephant a...

Within days the ice storm, I wrote about in the prior post, melted and was almost immediately followed by another cold front bringing hail i...

Our return to the land of the frozen was dry but bitter. We waded through 6 inches of snow covered in ice to the front door and carried our ...

I wrote on my Facebook wall that I had eaten dinner at the bank and slept in the parsonage when I was on this trip south.  I did not add det...

It has crossed my mind more intensely these days about why women do certain things in this Western culture.  Wearing earrings and necklaces ...

Owning and using a car is a big responsibility.  A car is a useful tool for getting you places and transporting others who do not have a...

I took one of those stupid Facebook quizzes the other day.  I usually avoid these because I think there is a Russian hacker behind each quiz...

(Another post I pre-wrote before I left.) Along the open area near the stairs on the third floor (I think it was third?) are the Americ...

You will notice that there are lots of small dogs being walked.  They are dressed nicely.  I saw four little dogs with flowered sun-visors ...

That one time of the day when the voices stop their annoying whispering in my ear.  The shaking of the fingers scolding me for my wasted ...

( Another post that I drafted before I left for Florida.) You can never tell where you might find a surprise such as a lovely rainbow unle...

My husband holds off as long as he can before he becomes adamant that we will visit his homeland for at least a few weeks.  He squeezes in a...

Once again a series of photo edits since I am stuck indoors.  This is a photo of the courtyard of that Freer Gallery that I keep visiting th...

I was going to post something about eating here, but then I found the context more appropriate to my other blog. So you can go there onc...

One (or more) of my blog friends was wondering why I could not post photos of works of art that I had seen in my museum tour on the last wee...