The Memorial Day weekend and the time leading up to it brought a couple of species of critters into our lives. First, it's time for new ...

I went to a wonderful estate sale last month -- but it was also a sad one. The resident of the home was the dad of a high school friend of m...

When last we left our happy travelers, we had wrapped up the Tudors at the Cleveland Art Museum . But there was much more to see and we were...

We recently headed to Cleveland for an extended family wedding. It was the first trip I'd taken (apart from to the kids or to the lake) ...

April wasn't a bad reading month for me, partly because I was laying low and also because it was so darned cold that I wasn't cleani...

It has been a week of off and on bits. Last week Rick was away, cycling to Bloomington, Indiana, to watch the Little 500 cycling race. If yo...

I took my first spring walk around the Ditch on April 13 and wasn't disappointed! My friend Harry the Heron is back! But more on him la...

Given that March isn't our most beautiful month, one would think there would be more reading done! But "Eleanor," a bio of Ele...

Easter 2023 is wrapped up and in the books for another year but it was such a terrific weekend, with kids, friends, eggs, good food and so m...

We are on the countdown to Easter and I'm looking forward to the invasion of the Munchkins! I even added a few more Easter things to the...

It's hard to believe Easter is almost here and I still don't have all the bunnies in place yet! (But I'm close!) I'd better ...

... Make something wonderful from them! It's probably no secret to anyone who knows me well that for the most part I can take or leave ...

Spring is doing its best to enter my world. It's still colder and less sunny than I wish but the daffs have buds (please, please -- no m...

Family Search tells me that Abraham Lincoln is my ninth cousin, five times removed. (Of course, that depends on everyone in the food chain d...

Between company, medical appointments, stressful moments in our city, and not feeling all that well in our winter weather, I didn't thin...

And so March marches on, bringing with it what I hope will be our last major snowfall of the season. This being Michigan, it could go either...

Now We Are Six ~ A.A. Milne When I was one, I had just begun.  When I was two, I was nearly new.

When I first retired, almost ten years ago, someone said "try to put something on your calendar every day, even if you decide not to do...

At an earlier Cork Poppers group, one of our members asked Rick if he'd provide a little concert on his classical guitar sometime. So, w...

It's been a week. This past week, tragedy in my home town. The week before, joyful time with friends, company, and Cork Poppers. Since I...

It's our turn. Thanks to those of you who checked in on email, Facebook and otherwise to see if Rick and I were OK after the tragic shoo...

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it the hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, lov...

Here's something you don't often see in my world at this time of year. That's sunshine, morning sun, coming into the backyard. N...

I haven't exactly been turning the page this past month! But I have enjoyed several offerings, two mysteries and an autobiography of sor...

Lots of bits and pieces to go on, as the month of January continues. This morning I woke to our first measurable snow since Christmas. The w...

Bloggers know that many of us pick a guiding word of the year. Last year, my word of the year was "Endure." After two years of adj...

I went to the Land of Van Gogh. No, not that one -- not the sun-drenched spots in Provence where so much of his beautiful and most memorable...

Gray. If you had to put our month into one color it would be gray.  Not that we haven't had the (rarely) occasional blue sky. But mostl...

It's time for my annual accounting of books read (often devoured) in 2022. In the past year I read 58 books, a few short of my goal of 6...

There are lessons to be learned from everything. Here are some of the things I learned this holiday season!