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, …
I’ve been saying this for years. What I have learned about perspective is sometimes funny, at least for one side of the situation. For example, during the recent deer hunting season my husband relayed a story about a hunter who was regaling him about how delicious suburban deer taste. The residents who live in the …
The Secret of Life is enjoying the passage of time. That is the first line of a song by James Taylor. I love his music and this song, but I think the secret of life is really PEOPLE. While we can all count so many examples of humans being really awful to each other, animals, …
To me, food is life. Since the beginning of the world and life on our planet, we eat to live. We eat because we are bored, we eat for comfort, we eat as members of our communities at fairs and festivals. Many times throughout the year for all sorts of occasions, we gather with …
As I have mentioned in previous blogs, I like to sing, in fact I LOVE TO SING. One magical day during my sophomore year at Pitt, there appeared in the middle of the Student Union a big booth. Within minutes kids started gathering around this big booth and soon it was discovered you could go …
I love being a dog mom and I can’t imagine my life being complete without a big dog or two. I have cared for dogs only in adulthood beginning with a 4 ½ year old chocolate lab we named Sophie that we acquired in the late 90s. Sophie was apparently a breeding dog as everyone …
If you are of a certain age, you will remember the television commercial in the 70s, How do you spell relief? R-O-L-A-I-D-S. Well, thank goodness for heartburn because antacids are basically chalk and just what I needed to keep me occupied whenever the adults were doing something outside that I wouldn’t find exactly scintillating. I …
That by far is not my favorite Led Zeppelin song, but I had been thinking about the title for this blog and that sounded perfect to me. I am a music lover. I mean I REALLY like music. Most of these blogs have had some reference to music which is no accident. I walk around …
I grew up poor, like government cheese and free lunches kind of poor. When you grow up with next to nothing, you really learn the value of everything you do have and also learn how to make the most of what is around you. So basically, I’ve been reusing items and conserving in general WAY …
Look out world, my almost 77 year old father has discovered the INTERNET. I tried to interest him some time ago and maybe it wasn’t the right time or maybe I didn’t have enough patience to teach him. Recently, I suggested he look into getting some lessons from a local library and this time he …