Hope you are going to have a perfect New Year's Eve followed by a better 2018.   We are not celebrating with anyone, anywhere and wil...

Taking a photo of a wood orchid a few years ago. One of the real problems that I (and most of us) have is understanding each other. It ...

Christmas Day and for a day or two after people post all their photos of family gatherings on Facebook.  This is fun and always portrays wel...

This is a Tabor re-run.  Gifts of long, long ago.

Today is my birthday. I do not feel it necessary for others to make a big deal of it.  I really had very little to do with it.  I am s...

(I have published a series of three blog posts on words and their significance in our current culture.  This President and his CDC could h...

Since words do matter, far more than we realize, I have decided to do some quick and dirty Internet searching to add to my prior posts on se...

Regarding yesterday's post, her is another take on the word of the year (there is some offensive language): La Brigada Feminista

Merriam-Webster Dictionary's "Word of the Year . " Do you know what the word is? I will give you a clue. It is not covfef...

1. Walking to the gate in the fog I saw two rust brown wrens flittering in the pile of kindling I had made after the last tree fall.  Since ...

We lost a "wounded warrior" Blogger yesterday.  She had not been able to blog for several years but fought her battle with...

Well, my spirits have lifted somewhat (temporarily) and I found a Christmas present in the news today with the indictment of Flynn. The Whi...

When one's life is a daily pain, one withdraws into oneself.  There is no need to burden others, because they cannot share your weight. ...

Return to my house on Sunday, I was greeted by this in my driveway. It looks like a skinny trunk but that thing was at least 12 inches ...

Since I have been alone, I have filled my days with errands and goals and now come to the end of the list. The next list is holiday shopp...

North of us got their first freeze and we are 34F this morning with no frost on the grass. Everything still looks the same outside the wind...

Late September and much of November are harvest times here at my house. Hubby has planted several persimmon trees outside. They are slow to ...

I wrote in an earlier post that I am alone until the 22nd of November.  Hubby is on the other side of the earth.  Those of you who are divor...

Subtitle: Why I am dressing as a ghoul for Halloween . Me:  I saw those photos that you posted on FB.  With those women.  What were ...

Hubby has a trip, a long trip both in time and space, that he is making. He is going to be gone for a month working on a project on the othe...