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Survived Another Week, So I’m Calling It a Win
For the better part of a week a nasty sinus infection has been kicking my butt. The good news is I now have some sweet antibiotics coursing through my system and hope to be feeling back to normal in the… Continue reading
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Holiday Memories: Mom’s Sears Boycott
These days I receive a few very random catalogs in the mail, but it’s nothing compared to the absolute glut of catalogs we received at our house when I was a kid. Still, of all those mounds of catalogs, there… Continue reading
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Thankful for Little Wins and You
I have a few new things to be thankful for this week. My short story “Hooper’s Folly” was the first place winner of the Friends of the Hunterdon County Library short story contest. Woohoo! I’m thankful to the FOHCL for… Continue reading
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A Mouse with Stockholm Syndrome (A Photo Essay)
Last week I wrote about some kittens who came in from the cold, so it seems appropriate this week to write about a mouse escaping the chilly outside temperatures. He (I’m using a male pronoun here, but honestly, I don’t… Continue reading
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The Kittens Who Came in from the Cold
When I looked outside this morning I saw there was ice on a puddle out there. So it would seem that colder weather is here, and that reminded me of another fall many moons ago when my little household suddenly… Continue reading
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Keep on Sparkling and a Cookie Recipe
Outside the fall foliage is probably a bit past its prime. There are almost as many leaves on the ground as there are on the trees, and overall the colors are not quite as vibrant as they were a week… Continue reading
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May Your Pumpkins Be Spicy
If you haven’t been inside a store or eatery in the past month or so, you might not realize that it is officially Pumpkin Spice season. If you’re as old as I am you might recall a time when such… Continue reading
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Bygone Kitchen Decor Trends
When I was growing up there were things you used to see in pretty much everyone’s kitchen. Exhibit A is pictured above. These ceramic frogs (and they were always frogs) had oversized open mouths and would be positioned beside the… Continue reading
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Taking a Journey in the YouTube Time Machine
Fellow, dinosaurs, if you want to feel old I saw a screenshot making the rounds this week of a question posed by a young person watching old movies and TV shows who wondered if people really used to commit phone… Continue reading
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That Time I Terrorized an English Teacher (But Not on Purpose)
It is officially spooky season, and so far it’s been a pretty scary week. In the publishing world one of the biggest book distributors (and the very biggest for libraries) Baker & Taylor is going belly up and yet another… Continue reading
Creativity and Contentment 