During the last quarter of 2025, my husband Mitch was going to be turning 65 and after 40 years of working REALLY hard in the retail marketing industry in a variety of display and print advertising areas. he was thinking of retiring. We had heavy financial burdens with maintaining a bed and breakfast, a restaurant, …
That’s a classic rock song by Humble Pie. I just love classic rock. I find song titles to really describe my life. When my back went out on Dec 30th and wasn’t doing any better by early January, my whole plan for my closed January at the restaurant fell completely apart. I had plans to go …
Photo by Tomasz Filipek on Unsplash When we moved to the country and changed our lives 6 years ago this month, we moved to a beautiful part of Southwestern PA. Our property was WAY down a long dirt driveway, the domain an unusual house, a geodesic dome in fact with a few outbuildings and a 2-acre pond that …
Photo by Markus Spiske on unsplash I would bet that you have helped out some humans in your lifetime. Perhaps someone you lent money to actually repaid you or paid it forward. Unfortunately, many, many people don’t. Some humans take huge advantage of others’ good will and still others blatantly steal. I am constantly baffled …
In a couple of weeks and no, I do NOT HAVE A DATE YET, which is of course frustrating for me and all those who keep asking, my life will be changing dramatically. My first and probably only restaurant will be opening in the beautiful little hamlet of Historic West Middletown PA. Along with …
Photo by Morgan Sessions on Unsplash I live my life as a busy little girl. I like DOING, GOING, running like I dare say, a chicken with its head cut off, (and I have seen this first hand and can lament), going at this speed actually keeps me happy. I am truly not happy only doing one …
When I decided to have a business and design business cards, the first thing I wanted under my name was Chicken Mama. When I hand those cards to everyone from fellow shoppers in the grocery store, to pretty much everyone I meet, they always comment on the chicken mama thing and laugh. Photo by Zachariah Smith on Unsplash …
Someone once said, the only thing constant in life is change. I mean life can change at a drop of a hat. Look at what the last two plus years have brought with this pandemic. So many things are different now. Are they better? Probably not for most unless you are a mask, plexiglass or …
I have been thinking about writing this blog for YEARS, even before I blogged. And I realize that anyone reading this who was born after 1980 or so is going to think that I am a curmudgeon, and it is entirely possible. I am a proud Gen X-er who is approaching fifty-four, grew up in …
Photo by Diana Polekhina on Unsplash I was born a Jew but I didn’t know growing up if I was REALLY Jewish or if it was something my parents exposed me to. My paternal grandparents were Jewish and they adopted my father. There was a culture of not talking about that apparently and my father never knew anything …