The redbuds are still blooming here, but soon to be replaced by green leaves. Despite cool days  (though getting a bit warmer!)  and (very) ...

Happy Mother's Day to the moms, grandmas, stepmoms, step-grans and pet moms! Here are a few of my favorites. One of my earliest photo sh...

For a person who doesn't read a lot of fiction (in the form of novels, not mysteries) two of the best books I read this month fall into ...

Alas, Harry the Heron hasn't shown up yet this spring, but I've had some other lovely sightings as the Ditch begins to awaken.   Sli...

My pal Barb had a birthday this week, so friend Kate and I decided to throw her a birthday lunch! After all, we need a good reason to celebr...

Let the sun shine! It's been a lovely week here, warmish (not hot, which is perfect) and sunny. It's awfully nice to see the rain ta...

April 21 is always a tough day for me. My mom died on that date, in 1977. You'd think I'd be over it by now. I am. And I'm not. ...

I just wanted to thank you all for such heartfelt comments on my recent post . You can't imagine what that support means to me right now...

Spring certainly seems to be dragging its feet here in mid-Michigan. Or, maybe it just feels like it was so long ago that we had our last sp...

March ended up being a surprisingly good -- and diverse -- reading month. How i managed eight books last month is a mystery to me! There wer...

I was going to my last post stand for Easter, and it does for the sacred side -- but I couldn't resist adding a vintage element or two!...

  Last Christmas Eve, Rick and I enjoyed a remarkable art experience when we visited St. John the Evangelist Church in Jackson, Michigan, ...

We had a lovely and fun pre-Easter, birthday weekend with the grandboys -- and boy, did they tire us out! To be fair, both of us were runnin...

The calendar tells us it is officially spring. I've got to go with that because otherwise, it's just too depressing!    So, on a rem...

Once again, life is a bit slow. Rick just returned from Florida this week, where he spent time with his dad and saw old friends. He got to t...

My friend Suzanne, who lives in London, Ontario, came to visit this week. We were celebrating Belated Christmas. (And belated birthdays, too...

Our schizophrenic weather brought to mind a character from an old children's television show I watched as a child,  "The Howdy Dood...

Three books this month. Is it the headaches that stopped me from doing more? Maybe. And I'm half through another that I'm not sure I...

In the last post I hopefully pointed to signs of spring -- melted snow, being the biggie. Well, I knew it would be back, and it was. Not a l...

It's been quite a couple of weeks. To be honest, I'm getting a little tired of it all! But the best part was Valentine's Day! Ri...

My great grandfather (my mother's maternal grandfather), William S. Wood, was born at sea in 1850 and raised in Buffalo, NY. By the 1880...

It's still mid February and while I don't want to wish time away, boy -- it seems like a long month! At least we've had some fun...

It's time for another Cork Poppers post! This time we met at my house and our theme was "Where in the World Would You Like to Be Ri...

I had high hopes for January reading and ended up with four books, three mysteries and one novel. I did clock in a lot of pages -- most were...

It's been a full week, mostly good, and capped off on Saturday with a Cork Poppers gathering. More on that one later, but we had a wonde...

Today is Nicole's Friday Face-Off portrait challenge , in which we share portraits we have done of another. Now, if I was really doing ...

Greetings from the Polar Vortex. Chances are if you live most places in the US, you are in it, too.    We are in the midst of a deep freeze ...

The past week has been mostly a "friend" week with several lunches and dinners out. I've been short of companionship during th...

Well, I've been here before. A slow month. I could write about a lot of health things or political topics but I don't want to and yo...

Finally -- an overview of the books I read in 2025. This was a far better reading year than I expected, with a grand total of 73 books read ...