I am back, sort of.  I got back home from my 25-day trip and found I had to turn around and head back to the city for a belated birthday d...

I will be on the plane in about than 36 hours and on my way to an exotic locale. Actually, I will make several stops along the way and be go...

This snow is long gone. Called the bank (800 number), since I have no bank nearby to walk into. "They" being a computerized ...

Not my boat and a photo from this summer. I have just spent over an hour waiting for a response on the phone...they warned me with their...

(Thanks to  Grannie Annie, I do this challenge once in a while.) “ Bloody hell!” Jeff said angrily as he tore off his diving mask.  “Wha...

Photo taken our first year in this new house when morning mist caught the sun's rays. The day is very gray and rainy, and while I lo...

This is a follow-up to the prior post. So if you have not read that, go there and I will wait...... The photo in the prior post was taken ...

A few years ago while on travel I took this photo. Clearly, the schoolchildren are curious about me or something around me. Some have dif...

CNN was interviewing a half-dozen Democratic voters (in Youngstown, Ohio) who in frustration with the system had voted for Trump. They...

I am spending a three-day weekend in the suburbs of the city child-sitting while parents are off to Las Vegas to celebrate a 50th birthday...

This has been an extremely rough week for those I love and since I have no control over their lives, and can only worry,  I curl up like a...

The ice cold weather is here to stay through the beginning of next week. We have not had such an extensive and harsh freeze for a number of...

I see two types of people in this world:  those that live a very clean and uncluttered  life.   They get rid of junk, stuff, old memories an...

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...