From Roses to Rainbows

This is Day 7 of the First Annual 10 Days of Heat writing challenge hosted by P. J. at  A ‘lil HooHaa . Today's prompt is  Camp Life . P...

Let’s swear each with our pinky We’ll be the best of friends Until we are old and wrinkly! Good friends and good times make memo...

Happy Anniversary to my wonderful husband of 28 years!  I have shared this quote from Robert Fulghum before, but I am putting it out t...

February 18th is: National Drink Wine Day Cheers! National Crab-stuffed Flounder Day National Battery Day Ash Wednesda...

If you were a kitten, wouldn't you just love to have a great place to play?  My friend Ashley's son, Michael, designed and built th...

Last month I had the long-awaited opportunity to visit Ashley and her family in the far-away place known as Ephrata, PA.  We lived next doo...

Today would have been Mom's 89th birthday. Seventy-one years ago she graduated from the Mattanawcook Academy. The academy was found...

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.   - Jonathan Safran Foer  Rosie - November 3,...

Please join me in welcoming a new talent to the blogosphere.  Meet Jim (aka my hubby), the author of Field Expedient Repair .   After seve...

At about 4 months old, Rosie joined our family in October 1997.  He was such a sweet little thing. He was about 6 pounds with big feet and ...

Is it that time again? Time sure does fly.  Twenty-six years ago today we tied the knot at the courthouse before the Justice of th...

What did you say? Did you ever play the game in school where a phrase is passed down from one kid to another?  When it reaches the last ...

My birthday was a few weeks ago, and this was my present. By 6:30 p.m. the line stretched from the Time Warner Cable Arena down the sid...

There isn't a lot going on in the creative department today, so I take you back to June of last year and our visit to Minnesota.  ...

Written for the 30-day creative writing challenge hosted by Nicky and Mike of We Work For Cheese .  It is the 25th day of this mind-bending...

Written for the 30-day creative writing challenge hosted by Nicky and Mike of We Work For Cheese .  Today's prompt is The Awkwardness ...

Written for the 30-day creative writing challenge hosted by Nicky and Mike of We Work For Cheese .  Today's prompt is First Place.   T...

Written for the 30-day creative writing challenge hosted by Nicky and Mike of We Work For Cheese .  Today's prompt is In the Kitchen. ...

Me, Mommy, and Grammy Today is Mother's Day, a day set aside to honor our mothers, grandmothers, mother-in-laws, and/or any other spe...

Today's post honors another of the great men in my life, my father-in-law.  It was with much sadness that we said goodbye to him just be...