When the first plane hit the Twin Towers in New York City on September 11, 2001, I was working a part-time job at a law office to supplement...

I use my blog for many things - inspiration, a place to try out different techniques, videos, music, poems, etc. Sometimes it's like a j...

 

A mish-mash of things - My husband's cousin passed away on Monday after a long bout of Covid. He spent some weeks on a ventilator before...

It was a Friday the 13th when the United States stood still - and the toilet paper disappeared. That day in March of 2020, the public real...

Yesterday I returned home from an errand to learn that Notre Dame in Paris was on fire. The structure lost its spire and the roof but the ...

This is a rant. Go away now if you are looking for cute pictures of niceties. You can come back tomorrow for that. _______________________...

Tears came to my eyes earlier in the week when Hillary Clinton received the nomination to be the first female candidate for president. When ...

My local daily paper today is full of anger. It usually is. Americans are angry people these days. Fearful people tend to become angry peopl...

I consider myself fairly well-read and I did not hear about the bombings in Beirut (which happened Thursday before the Friday bombings in ...

Sunday I read an article about how baby boomers who are my age really don't belong in that category. I wholeheartedly agree. I have l...

Twelve years ago today, over 1,000 men and women, all of them dressed in 50 to 75 pounds of firefighting gear, faced the worst event of the...

  Read this: I am Adam Lantz's Mother A Culture That Condones the Killing of Children and Teaches Children to Kill

Last night I attended a Christmas program at a local Baptist church. I had family members singing in the choir and had reason to be there. I...

I feel like I should say something about the shooting in Connecticut yesterday, where little children were gunned down in yet another sensel...

Several years ago I joined the Blog Blast for Peace. I took part in it for several years but I think last year I let it slip past me. Y...

Eleven years ago today, over 1,000 men and women, all of them dressed in 50 to 75 pounds of firefighting gear, faced the worst event of thei...

It seems to me that a lot of folks, including the media, blogs and elsewhere, are using words and concepts without truly knowing the definit...

I watched an HBO production of Grey Gardens just over a week ago. I am still haunted by this picture. The true story of Jackie O's ...