A Woman of Her Words

Get Yourself a “Go-To” Guy All my life I remember being surrounded by “guys.” You know--men who could do anything, build anything, fix...

Two Peas in a Pod -- Dress-Up Is Still Fun! In one of my recent entries I mentioned the “adventures” in my life. I guess it’s time I...

Lipstick on the Pig - - or Where Holidays Collide You could really blame it all on Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire and all the people who...

Hiatus and Redux Hello out there in the great ether of the internet—I have returned. I guess you could call what I took a hiatus – or a...

The Handwriting on the Wall It was time for it to go. It had been there for one year and five months. It had become like a lucky...

When is “Enough” Enough? I am an innately curious person. I have always been one to ask “Why?” At the age of 5 or 6 I turned my...

A true movie buff could not let time pass without including an homage to Burt Reynolds. He was an adopted Southern boy, having moved from...

Elena: Yes, were you looking for something? Alejandro: A sense of the miraculous in everyday life. The Mask of Zorro, 1998 Alejandro and...

I have just made it through a four-day weekend of basic "alone-ness." Except for church I did not venture out this past Labor Day...

We had the Lord’s Supper at Church last Sunday, and it reminded me of something I wrote a long time ago. I watched the six men who...

If Only . . . It was on again today, and I knew I would watch Pillow Talk as I have probably 15 times or more when I hit record. Turner...

Be All That You Can Be - -BELIEVE! I can still recall the rough feel of those hexagonal pieces of stone. We had lugged them from some...

Here are just a few of my favorite coffee quotes: You should know that before 10 am, no matter what the question is, my answer is always...

I love that song, "You Gotta Have Heart," From the musical Damn Yankees. But that does not surprise anyone who knows me well. I have...

“One touches and, in the act of touching, one's touched.” Aldous Huxley A “Hand Out” When your spouse or any other loved one dies,...

“We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage,...

Dictionary.com analyzes the American idiom, “waste not, want not” as follows: “Wise use of one's resources will keep one from poverty....

No, not a true tree, but the best tree of all--my family tree! I have found a time portal in my computer, and I often wander off there...

July 19, 2018 -- on this day 44 years ago, I was experiencing one of Life’s greatest miracles . . . childbirth. Yep, I was in another...

I was seven when I was informed that I had polio, and from that point on my life was never the same. I became a mini poster girl for my...