• When you’ve been given a gift, it’s important to use it and not just let it sit. We’ve got a great home, a place that is [...]

  Disappointments Can’t Destroy The Celebration

  November 4, 2019
• In 1985, Laura Numeroff came out with her delightful children’s book, If You Give A Mouse A Cookie. About a mouse who begins with a [...]

  When You Give A Mom Responsibility

  January 24, 2019
• John and I’ve been waiting forever to get away alone. The previous ten months have been a jumbled collection of too much travel, [...]

  Have Shneezles, Should Not Travel

  July 2, 2018
•   I’m not a good waiter. Not a server in a restaurant. I think I could be quite good at that. I’ve got decent people skills and [...]

  Anticipation Is Making Me Wait

  July 17, 2017

• “It’s made of zip ties.” I looked at the picture Melody was showing me. A light fixture from the fun and funky store [...]

  A Work In Progress–Aren’t We All?

  July 13, 2017