I have been away from Blogger, not because I am so busy, although I am, but because I have really not felt I had anything compelling to writ...

Maybe some of you will remember when I wrote about the tiny arbor we purchased from a local hardware store years ago.  It is a fragile and ...

Citizen science has become one way to collect scientific data because it costs very little.  Every single thing in this world is about money...

As a follow-up to comments I made on one of the young men in my life: This was mailed on May 10, days after Mother's Day, and I got it...

Another day of sprinkling rain today, coolish, but not unpleasant.  I wanted to be outside planting on my deck with the pots for summer...

If there is one thing most of us understand in the realm of physics is that eventually bubbles burst if they keep growing.  Maybe someday we...

A number of communities went through painful degeneration during that deep recession we were thrown into 8 years ago.  Even my little bit of...

Today was my first day in some days without errands to run, speeches to give, meetings to attend, and other peoples projects to maintain.  I...

Have you ever taken in an abandoned cat or dog?  Sometimes it doesn't work, but most of the time it works out quite well.  We did have a...

It is spring and in spite of the beautiful rewards of re-growth outside I have been forcing myself to move on task each day.  Being alone g...

So where has she been?  Is she still sick?  Has she gotten her car repaired?  The answer to number one is that I am still here plugging alon...

Like the colored bits of paper confetti after a party Like the seeds from a newly sewn lawn Like the spring hail that bounces on g...