Okay, my friends came to start working on the garage and that turned into a disaster. The strategy has shifted to working on the inside...

For the last several years I've lived from crisis to crisis, problem solving on the fly, knowing this would haunt me for the rest of my...

Labor Day weekend 1973 my parents and I moved into my dad's favorite house in Palos Verdes. We had moved from my grandparents' house in...

June 27, 2025: Pineapple Day  – Around this time of year I start to get an itch. 100 days out of Autumn, 200 days away from Merry...

Do I remember how to do this? Need to clear away the cobwebs and start doing this again - memory-flogger time! That's my first selfie...

Where I live there are seasons of HOT, mud, drought, and fog. Spring is the season of early morning clouds and fog. Sometimes there is...

I love reading blogs. It gives me great pleasure to read along and then follow the seasons through the year with a great blog. I am...

Finally made it to the Glass Pumpkin Patch this year and actually bought something - a beautiful leaf of gold and red. After years of...

Once again - and I guess I cannot say this often enough - I love what I do! All of it: the library, books, reading, holiday designing,...

Any holiday celebration at any time is my "thing". I love Christmas in July. And August. And September. And October. And April. And...