Those who really know me know that this is too cutesy and little-old-lady for my in-your-face taste, but it will have to do as I have ju...

Me : Anything you want to tell me? Talk about? Reveal about yourself so that I understand exactly what's going on in your mind at all ti...

I have been in computer hell for a few days.  It seems my download of Windows 10 to this old PC was NOT a good decision.  As a result they (...

My last post before Christmas.  This year the  approach to the holidays was the easiest ever.  Daughter wants to do most of  the cooking...

They no longer call But if they did, And asked how I was, What would I say? This morning I saw the pileated  destroying that old tree. ...

Finally a day that is gray and cold and rainy.  I like this forced coziness.  Maybe a fire in the fireplace tonight?  I have been able to fo...

Yes, I admit that our politics has put me in a funk.  Then we have had the gun disasters that  moved me into more of a funk followed by the ...

We tend to disappear as we age.  Women notice it more  because our culture treats us like eye-candy from a young age.  In my 40's I was ...

This is the season of peace in our country.  We claim to be a Judaeo-Christian culture, but I am not sure anything from that religious ...

Our first days south we stopped in Savannah, Georgia.  It is one of our favorite cities in that it maintains romantic southern charm mixed...

It was a long ten plus hours in the car yesterday on our last leg toward home.  I am always surprised to find the house is just as we left i...

33,000 people killed annually in this country by gun violence.  If more specific gun control is not the solution, what is?  We own two guns,...

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...