City folks use sewer lines which carry their waste from their toilets to a large filtration system. Country folks use septic systems. It...

Every child deserves a safe, loving environment—yet thousands of children suffer neglect and abuse each year. April is National Child Abuse ...

This was floating around on Facebook. "The first 4 words you see are your mantra" for the new year. The first four words I saw wer...

 

  I am joining in with other bloggers to write about peace today. I have done this before, although some years I forget. I started in 2007...

My blog serves as my personal sanctuary where I can express my thoughts, share my experiences, and work on creative pieces as I see fit. My ...

Reviews We started watching Hacks on Max over the weekend. Highly recommended! Jean Smart is terrific. Wish I'd been watching this all ...

1. I finished a Stuart Woods book and a Taylor Jenkins Reid book in the last two days. The Reid book was weird. Reid is like Ann Patchett or...

I am cold. I am sitting in my office with the door closed and a room heater running. It is doing double duty, as I have a sweater that I don...

A couple of readers asked questions about my responses to the weekend memes Saturday 9 and Sunday Stealing, so I thought I'd address tho...

You really can't trust Mondays. One never knows what a Monday will bring. Today brought me more of the same viral thing that I've ha...

1. What did you do in 2023 year that you had not done before? A. I began playing music with my father and his friend Joe. We meet once a wee...

No one has become ill since Christmas, when we had an accidental exposure to the Covid virus. We have been following the CDC recommendations...

 

 

I wore my Lord of the Rings t-shirt into the grocery store the other day. The checkout fellow kept giving me strange looks, and I asked if ...

Why do they make women's pants without pockets? I bet there isn't a pair of men's dress pants anywhere that doesn't have poc...