found hereGoodness! June is practically over and I'm just now showing up here. Absolutely ridiculous. Let's jump right in and get caught up.1. We just returned from a 3.5 day jaunt up to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. It had been ove…
It's time to clear out some cranial clutterbits. I had to think about this stuff, and now you do, too. This won't happen too often, so don't be overly concerned. No way do I ever want you to spend a great deal of time inside my head. It can…
Just a quick morning conversation with Rick at the lakehouse:Nance: (reading the newspapers online) Rick! The New York Times says it's time to upgrade our cabinet pulls.Rick: (lying on the couch, watching the news) Who cares what they say?
Why? WHY?!Tomorrow is May 1st, and I am still trying to figure out where in the heck April went. Also, will someone please inform the Weather Deities that it is May and not February. We have had two freeze warnings in the past ten days, and…
From UncommonGoods.com, and I approve of these.Is it Spring yet where you are? And how the heck are you? I'm pleased--no, make that ecstatic--to say that we've finally reached the point in NEO that grass has been mowed, and I've picked my o…
image courtesy EbayLong time, no see. March felt like it was several months long and a jumble of stuff. Let's get into it with a post that reflects that.*I've written here before about my funny grocery store and the oddities it carries in i…
https://plexido.pl/In my New York Times newsletter last week, writer Melissa Kirsch wrote about "doing the harder thing now so that you’ll have an easier time later...a fundamental concept in self-improvement communities." One example she g…
Congratulations to all of you, the Holiday Bringers And Makers. You brought it to life again. Well done. In the coming days, insist on your rest. Everything else can wait. Truly, it can. In this photo you are seeing Theo's gifts from Nana a…
I couldn't let November pass without writing here at least once more. The time I took was necessary, and I realized I couldn't pretend that everything was okay, normal, fine, or as it ever was. Writing the list posts felt like I was lying t…
For those of you who are new here, my dad was a lifelong union man, a steelworker, a former professional fastpitch softball pitcher known as the Lorain Tornado, and staunch Democrat. He was a first generation American, born of two Croatian
~*~My Grocery Store, Soon To Have Its Own Special On HBO: These are actual photos taken by Me of actual signs in my funny grocery store's Closeouts Section. I hope it never, ever changes. Listen, I'm still wearing the cute denim sneakers I
As I kept telling Rick--and myself--"Bet I don't die from it." And here we are. On Wednesday I was feeling terrific. Finally able to go out for walks again, I was loving the flowering trees everywhere, magnolia, crabapple, redbud, cherry an…