“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my moth­er would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find peo­ple who are help­ing.” To […]

Hap­py Hol­i­days! Grab some egg nog, or a hot tod­dy and curl up this week­end. I hope you’ve got a great book on your TBR pile, and I hope all of your Chrits­mas shopping […]

Wel­come to Decem­ber! I’m actu­al­ly get­ting into the Christ­mas spir­it! Here we go with my week­ly to-done: Work in Progress News ~ I’ve been writ­ing!! I’m so proud of me. […]

Can you believe Thanks­giv­ing has passed? I hope you all had a great one, and a safe Black Fri­day. We’re now offi­cial­ly into the Christ­mas sea­son. Is it me, or did 2012 just […]

Thanks­giv­ing Week! Where did this year go? I’m total­ly not ready for the next six weeks. We’ve had some great weath­er here, so it’s even hard­er to believe the Holidays […]

Wel­come! Anoth­er week in par­adise over here. We’ve had some won­der­ful weath­er! So after a very stress­ful Tues­day, the US can now put the elec­tion behind us. I was nev­er so happy […]

Howdy! What a week! News is focused–as it should be–on the dis­as­ter that Hur­ri­cane Sandy wreaked. My thoughts are with all still affect­ed. For every sad and depress­ing sto­ry that I read […]

Well, I’ve had a week of snow, ice, and wind. I guess it was bound to hap­pen. Pic­tures like this make it look nice, but really…it’s not. The only good thing about […]

Ok first of all, base­ball is over for me for the year. I don’t want to talk about it. In bet­ter news, I’m in the mid­dle of a blog hop host­ed by […]

Well, here we are, mid-Octo­ber already. I guess if I only post once per week the weeks seem to go faster. So far, not enough snow to actu­al­ly shov­el, so I’m still […]

Well, that’s it. Snow’s in the fore­cast.  I guess I should just be hap­py, I mean this sum­mer’s wild­fires were a direct result of the dry win­ter last year, so per­haps it’s a good thing. […]

Well, what do you think? Web­sites are redesigned. Now Olivia and Alan­na share a blog, which cuts down on my blog­ging time by half! Also removed sev­er­al pages from Alan­na’s site […]

Howdy! Fall is here whether I like it or not. I’ve been wear­ing a fuzzy fleece jack­et all week to write. Trees are begin­ning to change col­or, which is good because we […]

It’s the mid­dle of Sep­tem­ber. Do you know where your sum­mer went? Favorite Song of the Week ~ I’ve had this song stuck in my head for three days, so I’ll post it here in hopes of shar­ing the ear­worm. Okay, … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

Wel­come! The bite of autumn is in the air. I’m not very hap­py. I’m hop­ing for anoth­er warm stretch before the snow flies. Favorite Song of the Week ~ In direct con­trast to last week’s song, I give you Tay­lor … Con­tin­ue read­ing →