For the final 2021 blog post and in honor of the holiday seasons, I give thanks for my friends who are also readers of this blog and the many ideas, suggestions, and comments you have sent to me. Some of those suggestions included links to grammar websites which I am now sharing with all of…

While walking recently, I noticed the plants that were in “winter” mode compared to the ones that were blooming away. It seems to me that all plants are pretty when blooming, but when their blooms drop, what do they look like? Like people, yes? When we are happy, healthy, and doing well personally and professionally,…

This year certainly has been different for sporting events. Schedule changes, cancellations which were then uncancelled, and safety protocols (I’m pretty sure the word “bubble” has never been used as often as it has this year 😏). But I think the strangest, from a viewer’s perspective, is the audience – or the lack of an…

Can you guess where I was from this picture? You’ll know where it is if you can figure out what those structures are. It’s in the U.S., as a hint.

Let’s have a light moment and talk about . . . people :). I think people are funny. The things we say are funny. The things we do are funny. Even when we are trying to do the right thing. But every once in a while, people drive me crazy! Here’s an example. Drivers in…

Congratulations to Dona Sutton, the first “Where Was I?” post winner. She correctly noticed, not just the cobblestones and narrow alley, but the Vespa in the background! A visit to Bellagio, on Lake Como, Italy, last year. It was so cold that I had to buy soft, warm, Italian leather gloves – poor me :).

I cut myself the other day and immediately put a square of toilet paper on the cut to help stop the bleeding. “Oh, No! What have I done? I have wasted a square!” I quickly put a bandaid on the cut instead of a second square, knowing the bandaid was more expensive than toilet paper…