A Homeschool Story

This article of clothing is now my favorite sight when I am out. The wearer may look a little bit bedraggled, and the t-shirt will have smud...

This should not have been a year in which we take our good health for granted, but that is the definition of human nature; eternally optimis...

Such a joy I have to share today! I am visiting my eldest kiddo in Chicago. This one somehow managed the thing schools tell parents and kids...

My research on today's topic, undertaken because of interest and from a sense that I perhaps maligned our beloved basements just a bit a...

It is one of the great delusions of first-time homeowners all across America: this hole that was dug as a foundation for the house is going ...

I find great joy and comfort in the very existence of Hobbits, and in the inversed subject-verb sayings of Yoda.  Now, let's not get all...

I must first make an offering of compassion and recognition for the grief the pandemic has strewn across the globe in its wake, before telli...

Have you ever swum in the ocean? It is positively primeval. It is the one thing I most look forward to when I am near the beach, and a thing...

A flower I remember my grandmother pointing out on our woodland hikes was the Brown-eyed Susan. I often wondered why Susan got her own flowe...

I look out from my magnificent PALACE of a shelter; a beach chair almost covered by a rainbow parasol with a window opening onto the waves c...

The plant-infused patio, with it's white wicker furniture is still warm with a light breeze to keep it all cool today. As I sat and pond...

Decision made: a challenge to myself to write for 30 days in a row about normal, about noting the small beauties of the every day. I am easi...

Going to sleep is better, but as waking up has become a habit of late; I suppose that appreciating how very wondrous it is could lead to les...

Sometimes a girl's gotta' call in the troops, or the stronger arms with shovels. To illustrate: you take a shivering friend of your ...

The question "WHY" is the one most asked the world over when a human who is lucky enough to live in a perfectly comfortable home d...