A Garden of Reflection
People often ask me if I miss living in Nebraska and I’d have to say that for the most part the answer is no. Don’t get me wrong, I like Nebraska, Omaha is a great city, and I say that…
Category musings and random thoughts
A Game of Dog and Mouse
We have another mouse in the house, sigh… It turns out that one of the side benefits of living in a wooded area is the opportunity to try out different mouse traps and variations of bait. I’ve found that the…
Shucking Corn the Easy Way
I couldn’t resist sharing this. I sent this video to a few friends last fall and all of us thought it looked like a great idea, but that we’d never remember to try it once summer rolled around again. I…
Serendipity
Christian and I had been looking forward to the day the moving truck would deliver the boxes and furniture from storage for two years, two months and six days. October 8, 2010, was the day we thought we would no…
The Envelope Please…
“You’ve been nominated…” – I’ve always wanted to hear those words about me and now I have! I was officially nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award. I’d like to thank Naomi Baltuck for passing the award along to me as…
Just One?
We left the house at 6:30 am (ish), stopped at Wawa for doughnuts and coffee, and in spite of the slow southbound traffic on 95 we made it with time to spare. Christian is at an awkward travel age; according…
That was EZ!
I loved the episodes of Bewitched when one of Aunt Clara’s spells went awry and an historic figure like Benjamin Franklin or George Washington materialized in the middle of Samantha’s living room or Darin’s office. I thought it was hysterical…
See You at the Station
It’s been eighteen days since the last episode of getting lost, that is if you don’t count losing your car in parking garages or missing an exit due to traffic, neither of which count in my book. After more than…
Two Shorts a Long and a Short
While I doubt the conversation among the neighbors who shared the same party line as my grandparents ever got as racy as it did between Doris Day and Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk, I would venture a guess that there…
Reflections of the Sun
I am the warmth that greets your day, kissing the sky with the vibrancy of color and light. I encircle you with my bright rays of color. I touch your morning as I rise and I settle you with a…