My biggest cheerleader is my husband...this is both a good thing and a really bad thing. (Flattery will get you not very far with me becaus...

Hubby and fishing pals returned two days early from the great Everglades swamp. They caught some fish (didn't bring me any) saw alligat...

I firmly believe that we must exercise the brain as well as the body as we age. Being more honest, I have always loved being a student and ...

My husband has been on an almost two-week long trip. For those of you who are widowed, this may have less meaning to your understanding of ...

They said it was going to be a long and heavy snowstorm. I kept waiting on Saturday and nothing really was happening. It finally started at ...

Your hubby is out of town and returning the next morning. A friend of his is arriving tonight to spend the night before a trip they ar...

It is a new year and I thought those of us who hug trees, believe in the integrity of science and scientists, and need some good news ...

I do love to curl up on gray-pending-rain days, the kind of days that good authors use for great prose inspiration, the kind of days that ...

It is now the time of those in-between days. I am a bit too old for all that self-renewal stuff. Yes it is the coming of a new year and I wi...

Its all about the birth of Jesus, right? Except on the day after Christmas, it is all about getting the garbage out to the street on time ...

In the holiday spirit, I printed a new recipe for cookies from one of those foodie sights out in the vast Internet. We really had not be...

I was lucky to get the Grands last week. Mom and Dad had one of their dressy Christmas parties in the city with an overnight in the hotel...

No holiday parties to attend except for the organizations to which we donate and those parties have come and gone without us.   They are ni...

Taken early this morning as the sun was coming up. All those sweetness and light ads making you assume that Christmas is about buying s...

" Cardi B Shares First Photo of Daughter Kulture Hours After Announcing Offset Split "  It took me a minute or two, or honestly, ...

OK, now for Part II. If you have not gone ahead and listened to Malcolm Gladwell's Season 3 podcasts 3 and 4 on Revisionist History,...

A bookshelf of stories from a friend's house. I am sure that many of us have sat around the holiday table and told a story from our ...

This list was made without forethought for order or importance. Just a thankfulness list off the top of my head in a stream of consciousn...

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the United States and like many holidays, is being viewed with less rosy eyes by its citizens.  Some see ...