Hummingbird Heaven – The Season Begins

Posted on Sunday, September 1st, 2013

September 1 is Return of the Hummingbird day at our house.  It happens like clockwork, which makes it almost magical.
We live in a second floor condo with a smallish balcony, so when we put out […]

Comic Strip Mama – Climbing The Stairway To Awesomeness!

Posted on Wednesday, August 21st, 2013

“How much loss and pain should one person have to take in one lifetime?”
Is that a rhetorical question?
Not really.  Not if you are going through, or have gone through, the kind of loss and pain […]

Weekly Writing Challenge: I Remember

Posted on Saturday, August 10th, 2013

Here I am, jumping in at the last moment to join the WordPress Weekly Writing Challenge: I Remember.
The challenge has two parts. The first is to write about something you remember. We were given prompts, […]

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh

Posted on Friday, July 19th, 2013

The theme for this week’s challenge has a lot of options.  How many different ways can you think about the word “fresh?”  Of course, there are tall glasses of lemonade, cool running streams, early asparagus, […]

Lunar Love – Unscientific Proof That The Moon Rules

Posted on Friday, June 21st, 2013

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Super Moon!

This weekend we are graced with the presence of a Super Moon, also known as a ‘perigee’ full moon.  The moon follows an elliptical orbit around the […]

Lessons From Mom – Things I Learned To Appreciate

Posted on Friday, May 10th, 2013

Time is the great eye opener.
I hear the clock tick, tick, tick away the days, months, years… and I realize as time passes how many things I appreciate.
Ordinary things.
Extraordinary things.
Big and small, there are moments […]

Blue Mountain eCards And More – A Pleasant Surprise For This Luddite

Posted on Monday, March 11th, 2013

I guess I’d have to say I’m sort of a hold-out when it comes to accepting certain change, like technology, for instance.  The word the kids are using nowadays is ‘Luddite.’  You’ll recognize a Luddite […]

Let The Word Be Your Guide – New Year, New Word

Posted on Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

It’s never too late to think about a New Year’s Resolution, is it? Well, it’s not that I haven’t been thinking about it. My daughter, Nicole Dean, issued the challenge back in January to… well, […]

A Wisconsin Yankee Adrift In Dixie Waters – A 10 Year Voyage

Posted on Sunday, December 2nd, 2012

Ten years ago today, on December 2, 2002, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, our ship landed in Pensacola, Florida.
Well, actually it was a Volvo, but judging by our surroundings, we had just come off […]

Happy Birthday To Me – Distractions From The Celebration

Posted on Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

Happy Birthday To Me!
My birthday has always been a big deal.
It began, I suppose, because my parents made the day special every single year… no matter what was going on and no matter how many […]