Rick celebrated another circle (or cycle!) around the sun this past week. I'm a firm believer in celebrating birthdays -- sometimes it t...

Lake life continues to move at a slow and gentle pace. Lovely sunsets, (almost) daily walks (the rain is a factor) and sometimes even a cele...

Well, here in the last postcard I was talking about our mostly lovely weather and that it was warm. Then the rain came and cooled it off. Bu...

I have decided that it takes a good week to begin to get a new routine going, to look at time differently than I do at home. There is no s...

As I begin writing this, it's my first evening at the lake. Finally. Between appointments and physical therapy, along with a couple of f...

Somehow I managed to squeeze in six books during June -- no doubt because most of them were so good I couldn't put them down! Not surpri...

Well, things have a way of working out, even if it sometimes takes a stupid mistake to facilitate it! Here you see my yard sale!  It was a s...

May wasn't my best reading month, but for the most part the books I did finish were well worth the time. They included two mysteries, a ...

It seems like everything happens in June -- graduations, weddings, parties. It's no exception here! We've had a few fun times and ce...

Sketchbook Revival 2023, hosted by Karen Abend, wrapped up in late April and it was a good one! For the uninitiated, it is a collection of t...

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...