Suprise Me

I had little knowledge of the works of those people in the Castle on Mount Auburn Street. Read More

Guns were always around our family while I was growing up. My father, having grown up in Wyoming, would go hunting rabbits and snakes in his youth, and when his father died, several rifles and shotguns came with the estate. My grandfather had a rifle from his service in WW I that he’d outfitted with… Read More

on July 8th (an event that occurs every year) 99% of the world’s population (8 billion people) will see the sun’s light at the same time Today this event took place a little after 7am EST Read More

My mother volunteered, or was more likely pressured, into becoming the assistant den mother--a less likely role for her I can't imagine. Read More

One guilty pleasure I share with my husband is PBS Masterpiece Theater serials Read More

WHY I BLOG One evening several years ago, with no forethought that I recall,  I sat down and determined to start a blog.  Some friends were already blogging and I loved reading their posts.  But although I had always enjoyed writing and had taken some writing workshops over the years (and even had a stack… Read More

We Lived outside the box! Read More

I rarely watch a movie more than once. There are just too many great ones out there I haven’t seen yet. My former partner of 20 years had a theory that we shouldn’t waste time watching movies; we should be on the move until we were too old to travel, and then we could watch… Read More

Sometimes you have to work with them. Then, separation is impossible. Read More

A man would be waiting for us—not always the same man—then off they would go and I would sit with her infant daughter, already fast asleep in her crib.  Read More