Years That Answer

It is hard being surrounded by the pain, hardship and hatred that is rampant in this old world.  I notice the wrongness of it even more sinc...

A friend sent me the following poem. She knows I miss the trees that grew on our land when we lived in Upstate NY.  The Mangroves by Mar...

T and I finally went to see the new Mad Max movie ( Fury Road ) the other night.  Fury Road was not nearly as good as the gloriously futuri...

The other morning I almost made pasta sauce with peppermint instead of oregano. I decided to make red sauce in the slow cooker for a change....

When I was a little girl I liked to hide just out of sight on the breezeway steps so I could hear my mother and Bernie (the next door neig...

What is this thing they call dirt in Central Florida?  It looks like sand mixed with a little topsoil to me.  You should have seen my face ...

I just came back from an imaging clinic where I was supposed to have an MRI.  I am wildly, breathtakingly claustrophobic and the prospect of...

I spend my days desperately trying to avoid hackers and phone scammers.  They know I am a retired person and they are absolutely de...

Third children are rare these days, but back when most families had a third child it was an interesting role to play. I rarely got to make d...

Let me just say right up front, I am greedy for flowers and plants.  I must have them if I am to be happy.  I need the color, the shapes, th...