Suprise Me

You can learn a lot of things in scouting, and a few you just try to forget. Until it's time to shock your kids and grandkids. Read More

I’ve missed my chance to take a walk today. Now it’s raining, and freezing, and the forecast says it’s only going to get worse. Read More

Having never had a pot experience that was either pleasant or memorable, I just stuck to tried, true and non-felonious ethanol. Read More

Whether Oscar Wilde or Chrissie Hind in “Message of Love,” said it, I have always found astronomy an escape into imagining the universe beyond our mortal realm.  I was able to get through physics and chemistry because of science teachers who truly loved their subject, but astronomy was the one that caught on for me.… Read More

As most language was eluding her, it was wonderful that she was able to profit from the memorization exercises of her childhood. Read More

Piano Man – Remembering Herb My memories of that summer between college and grad school,  when I took a camp job with my friend Liz,  are bittersweet. Liz and I were co-counselors for a bunk of kids,  and I had also signed on as drama counselor.   When we arrived at camp I was introduced to… Read More

I fear I’m talking about what we find on television to pass the time as we head into our ninth month of the pandemic. Read More

On My Honor I Will Try! I was never a Brownie – I don’t remember why,  I guess it was just another example of my parents’ negligence.  (See Tennis Woes) Instead,  when I was in 4th or 5th grade,   too old for Brownies,  they signed me up for Girl Scouts.   But most of… Read More

Still, this is my hometown. I love it for the amazing people I have met here and its overall caring heart and beauty. Read More

Laughing through tears, I can tell you, is really a thing. Read More