Two quick gifts

#1 – Build your own bookshelf and engage with others on shelfari.comI just discovered it and I’m enjoying it so.# […]

You Better Recognize!

I’ve waited for someone to say the words, “I love you” at various times in my life. Sometimes when I […]

Thank you TJMaxx

TJ Maxx and Mar-shall’s save my life on a regular basis. I know that no matter how tight my wallet […]

The People Speak

It was my great pleasure to witness a historic event, the filming of the Race segment of The People Speak […]

Pick Up Your Power

Pick up your power and use it. Please.Your power is your uniqueness. There’s a reason that you’re you and not […]

Foul Weather Friends

Beware of fair-weather friends is how I’ve heard the saying for most of my life, but I’ve noticed a variation […]

I Wish I Could Sew Like My Mother

Sewing, being stylish, and decorating were/are the arenas in which my mother showed her creativity…strutted her stuff! When I was […]

A Great Day

OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMA! A change has come. A change neither my mother or I thought we’d see in our life […]

Coziness – A good day

I am blessed today to: have heat in frigid weather; a casserole made yesterday that tasted even better today; a […]

New Year’s Eve

Some people, like my mother and step-father, have a standing New Year’s tradition. They check into a downtown hotel for […]

Lacking a father’s love

At the end of a brief conversation I had with my biological father recently, the first in over a year, he […]

Family

We Are Fam-i-ly!

As I write this, my daughter is reading my blog for the first time.  She has been shamed into it […]

Impatience

I wonder if the impatient tapping of fingers, angry chatter on cellphones, harumphs and other sighs, exasperated looks, pacing back and […]

Skin Hunger

Have you ever noticed that when cats and dogs get near each other, they immediately sniff, touch and frolic? They […]