You start off the day you are born and everything is preset with defaults. Then things begin to get interesting. […]

Back in the day… My Mom often referred to people she knew who suffered from mental illnesses as having “nervous […]

Que sera sera. When I was a kid, my mom used to sing the song, “Que Sera, Sera” as it […]

I grow orchids. It’s not a hobby or anything. I’ve been given orchids as gifts, and have seen them at […]

I have moved to different places to live so many times, I’ve lost count. I would need a spreadsheet to […]

Recently, I was asked to help with a part of a book that a friend is writing, and I agreed, […]

I just don’t get it. It certainly seems like the world is going bonkers right now. The whole planet. One […]

Life is change. How it differs from the rocks. Jefferson Airplane Although it appears that rocks don’t change, they actually […]

So, I recently had my nose structures repaired as referenced in a recent post. The fear ahead of the procedure […]

“Hi, I’m Gabrielle” Today, New Zealand finds itself dealing with their “storm of the century” (literally), while having just experienced […]

When I was a kid, we definitely had winter. “Snow Days” occurred usually in January. It wasn’t a huge deal. […]

I always since fifth grade and probably before that have had “sinus trouble”. I remember the big green pills that […]

For now, let’s look at the political scene. It’s crazy, still, but it looks like people are coming to their […]

This holiday season started off as normally as it could. But then. The super-winter-weather-bomb cyclone event named Elliot (like a […]

It was a little after the last bar that it happened. It was 2006 in London, just before the part […]

So, it’s been building. That overwhelmed feeling that comes in around Thanksgiving and builds until after New Year’s Day. Can […]

The transformations marked by events push our thoughts and contemplation into the mode that we, as humans, find difficult to […]

Don’t bother sending in the clowns, they are already here. As if things couldn’t get crazier, they do… every damned […]

The full magnitude of every category of bad stuff that is happening right now is more than most of us […]

Cloudier days, sometimes cold, earlier sundown – heck, we just start feeling like we should be hibernating! Like bears in […]

Favorite old phrase from a Neil Young song title… “Here we are in the years…” 2022 kicked us off with […]

It was a long time ago, now. Sixteen years. It was the grimmest of grim. We held on to hope […]

We just want some peace – please. This has been the craziest year – and it continues. Dear Santa, can […]

Some old literature and quotes come back into your mind at times when you think that the world is turning […]

It’s hard yards – we are very much adopting to our new-normal. Mainly mentally, this is something to adjust to […]

OK folks, day by day, this experience (better to call it for what it is) is unfolding. Observing the culture, […]

Watching our church service via Facebook is an interesting adaptation to using technology to keep with a routine – to […]

We might want to pull out our dusty copy of Nostradamus. Lots of people are reading Revelations. But, no matter […]

Here is an article for you to read from the Texas Standard, a news organization local to these parts with […]

The pandemic diaries can be found here.

Competition. Humans are hard-wired to compete. It is in our DNA as we have evolved into more sophisticated competitive spaces […]

The year started as it usually does. New Year’s day. Another birthday. Friends birthdays… and as always, new possibilities for […]

Giving of arts and crafts has been interwoven tradition in my family for years. In lean years, we made gifts […]

Everyone has a different perspective when it comes to Christmas. It’s a very emotional holiday, like all the others that […]

Each year. Every month. Down to the day. Sometimes to the hour or the minute. Our perceptions of change, and […]

I get gut-aches when I’m stressed. I’ve endured a lot of stress, but still, when it is extra bad, I […]

Should have captured a photo the other day of the remarkable map that we could observe using satellite imagery and […]

When Rob was about two, the Pat Metheny Group came out with a work called “Secret Story”. It’s been a […]

My grandmother – we all called her “Boo” (not in the above picture) – was one of those quintessential dignified […]

In my life, friends have come and gone – some really have gone, but that’s another subject for another day… […]

Ever wonder about why things seem to go pear-shaped on a regular basis? Or why there is so much “bothering” […]

What was it that Mahatma Gandhi said? “Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for […]

Really, I think it was everything – scary. hopeful. an imperative. there was no other choice but the event horizon. […]

It doesn’t seem that long ago that things were not this crazy. In fact, it seems that about 5 years […]

Back in the day, when I was young, I thought I was making good decisions. What you don’t realize is […]

Joni Mitchell had a song called River on her “Blue” album that included that phrase ‘it’s coming on Christmas, we’re […]

Mixed up times combine over time to yield the underlying emotions running up to the holidays each year – each […]

Today, I discovered that one of our old standby weather outlets has discontinued it’s API for hobbyists and kids (which […]

I find it interesting that people actually think that it’s okay to have a reputation like this new Supreme Court […]

It’s the culture. It’s the demanding demeanor. It’s the “above the law attitude” – the “hurry up” and don’t find […]

I think of the children separated from their parents – how horrifying for all of them – and do these […]

Putting up the holiday decorations… Each year, this is frankly my least favorite activity.  But, I am compelled to get […]

I really do not want to dwell on the past year’s historic mindblowing state of affairs, nor do I want […]

This hacking stuff really does your head in.  You would think that these people have something better to do. Stephen […]

Yes.  It is extremely beyond the realm of disturbing.  Those who experienced the days of Watergate most certainly are trying […]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/14/most-popular-cuisine-state_n_6457252.html We love maps.  They tell a lot about people, in cultural geography and human habits – popular food consumption, […]

I think that it is because it all seemed to happen at once.  The dimensions and facets right now are […]

2016 really became the most bizarre year in recent memory, especially during the second half.  Was it something that got […]

Things that reveal that you are no spring chickin anymore: Thing 1 – Putting up the 2016 Christmas Tree and decorating […]

Admittedly, this is a different holiday season in many ways, this year, but most acutely, within my family we will […]

here lately, in our years on the sea of life, we have entered into one of those stormy territories, where […]

the title of this post is from an old column that used to run in The Readers Digest magazine.  It […]

Before I went to sleep last night (with difficulty), I prayed that something would change what I knew in my […]

good morning sunshine.  as i sit here today, it’s november 8th.  it is election day in the us.  the oracle […]

Astrology Forecast: “be wary of your Facebook feeds today – Mercury is in a tenuous position – there may be […]

I really get upset when I spend good money and this happens.  Crazy people who are really trying to get […]

God help us all.  The tension of the debate tonight was enough to drive ANYONE crazy – secrets and lies […]

Rob passed on, eleven years ago, just before 3 AM.  I remember being at home later in the morning, with the […]

It’s been happening lately, and it will happen more unless they are stopped.  That’s right.  Clowns.  Clown sightings on the […]

Since 2005, each year, from May 24 through September 20, I feel the time coming well ahead of when it does […]

Right now observing the culture is a very scary thing. It seems that we have a nominee (presumptive candidate) that […]

My Dad was mostly a “mellow fellow”.  He was not so much an expressive type, but more he was likely […]

“The Donald” came and went through our town last night.  After causing traffic congestion, heat exhaustion and one broadcasted arrest, […]

“It doesn’t matter – nobody cares about that…”  Gosh what words. Oh the tangled web we weave… Apathy, one of […]

A world gone mad – why?  Because there are a high number of angry people in the world who for […]

I read blogs out there on the inter-universe, and articles, which are really blog pieces, and I think to myself […]

Look at this weather forecast: Not pretty.  Again?  Really? The mosquitoes are going to eat us alive.  We are going […]

It has been raining again – this year, it made the IronMan pretty rough for people, I imagine – lightning […]

The call from my grandson started me out today – waking up suddenly, realizing that the phone was going off […]

Here lately, so much has been happening that it is difficult for us to know the extent to which it […]

  It was a weird week.  We had flooding.  We rescued our friend’s 89 year old father from the airport […]

Making wearable art has been of interest to me since I began doing artwork as a child.  I am now […]

I had not visited in a while.  I thought I would just go out – it was a sunny day, […]

Here lately, the humans on this planet are really showing their bad side.  Like bored kids with big IQ’s, they […]

David Bowie has left to become stardust. I used to hear him even in music by others, his distinctive influence, […]

  Oh my gosh.  Well, as people who know me understand, I like to chat and I like humor.  I […]

Astoundingly fast the time goes these days.  When we were kids, we used to say “as slow as Christmas” when […]

So, I am looking for the little Christmas trees.  I look everywhere and realize that they are not in any […]

It starts with Halloween.  Actually, it starts earlier than that, but we won’t go there. Today, I read this most […]

What I like to do?  That’s a good question.  It depends on the day.  Sometimes I can’t even answer that […]

Reflecting about this, now for almost two years, it’s interesting how you have this sudden realization that you don’t have […]

As much as I can’t get my mind wrapped around the fact:  I am a grandmother.  It takes a lot […]

How we look at our world is as various as we are from one individual to another. I recently watched […]

don’t you feel better when you have something that you can look forward to doing?  not dread.  but something that […]

Blade Runner.  Great movie.  Classic.  We saw it again recently.  A reminder of the perceptions of life that we hold […]

all these years.  yep.  it is a fact, day by day, we never know what comes around the corner.   finding […]

Tactical. That’s a word that really deals with the immediate situation.  The “situation room”.  You have a problem, you deal […]

    conundrums of life.  it is all how things are perceived.  people to people.  actions. viewpoints.  statements.  good or bad.  […]