Thanksgiving week was very nontraditional as we headed with children and their families to Marco Island, Florida for the week.  I will post ...

Years ago, when I lived on a tropical island just north of the great continent of Australia, I would run into the lone or pair of Australian...

The news of the world that has ramped down my mood with its dystopian stories has cut me low and lost.  I keep searching for a post that is ...

AND of course I  also weep for Beirut, Syria and other places where religious craziness and  pathological anger kill innocent men women a...

OK...no more depressing thoughts...unless you add you own.  But here are some facts (most gleaned without added footnote links) for you to a...

Winter is less than a month away, although our fall has been oddly warm.  It was 80F two days ago!  I got my daughter-in-laws bulb-garden-bi...

There were a few of my readers that felt the discussion of a dystopian future in the prior post was too overwhelming and depressing for th...

I just finished reading a book that explained to me that my desire for a strong middle class is a futile wish.  This segment of society will...

Taken at a famous Richmond, Virginia cemetery.

Fighting insomnia always seems to be my battle during a full moon.  Perhaps I am a witch?  Is this my season to be out and about with black ...

I received an opportunity to spend the day canoeing a river that flows through a local land trust.  This part of the woods is not accessible...

I live in a very rural area.  So rural that our County Councilmen have trouble reading tributes, perhaps written by others, at meetings hono...

Tabor debates at this time of year whether this week is THE week to pull down the winter quilt for the bed. Tara debates this time of y...

Fall is the time when food is abundant, when you know that the freshness of some foods will be waning and when you justify eating more to pa...

I met a young man years ago through my Son-in-law.  He is a handsome New Jersey Italian, friendly, nice, from a deeply Catholic family a...

Tradition in northern climes this time of year is to harvest and save and savor.  Nothing tastes better than freshly picked apples in the au...

New giant dove discovered during eclipse of the moon. "people remember through photographs but that they remember only the phot...

While perusing the local used book store in a college town in the mountains of Virginia last week, I just had to take a photo of this top...

Having so many delicious bell peppers from the garden I just had to brag and post a photo of a stuffed pepper casserole on Facebook.  After...

I'm a little nervous so I arrive about 20 minutes early to check out the study room in the public library.  The room is small with a...