Month: January 2010

      Here comes the sun, and I say, It’s alright!              After twelve, TWELVE, long days of nothing but gray and fog, it rained!  Oh, it was wonderful!  Much as I dislike the dreary gray of constant fog, I do love the rain.  It rained all night Tuesday, but Wednesday morning […]

     This is really not a blog post.  New regulations from the FTC require that I disclose my affiliation with Amazon.com whenever I review a book or product they sell.  In order to not weigh down my normal blog posts with a lengthy disclosure every time I mention liking a book or household product, I […]

     Sometimes past eras are romanticized in movies and books.  Too often, in my opinion.  My parents both lived through the Great Depression, my father as an adult and my mom as a girl and young teen.  My mom, especially, had plenty of stories to share about those times and very rarely were the stories […]

            This has been an extraordinary fall and early winter for us.  We enjoyed what was, for us, some very unusual weather in early December; but we are now “enjoying” our normal winter weather of almost constant, dense fog (which accounts for my dark, blurry inside pictures).  We have been plagued by virus […]

     I completed thirty-six books in 2009.  Not as many as I’d hoped to finish, but a good number just the same.  There are two or three more books that I started late in 2009 that I will still finish.  However, most of the unread titles in my reading “basket” will be reshelved for another […]

     I spent the last few days of 2009 and the first day or two of 2010 working on a list of goals for this year.  I was blessed to have the encouragement of a wonderful friend, serving as a sounding board via email, which made the process almost fun.  It was labor and time […]