It's that time of year (yes, the song), but I'm talking about a Christmas cactus that is almost in full bloom. The Best Daughter's ...

I’m amazed at how fast 24 hours go and that it is half past November already! Can it be? Is life blitzing by? It sure seems like it....

Over the past two weeks, I have uttered to myself, “That’s a good story or blog post.” Yet, I didn’t write it down or jot the thought...

I’ve been on the hook for Jury Duty all week in the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. On Monday, 11/4, I didn’t make the...

September was a great month as I celebrated Childhood Cancer Awareness Month by uploading audio episodes of The Focused Fight for 30 days...

Most genres of music put me in a good mood that not much else could do, and almost instantaneously when those tunes begin with one note...

Amazing Olympics - and I've gone through phases of watching them a lot or very little over the last 40 years. After graduating from...

As a prolific quilter, I need to use many dedicated tools to create projects with fabric. Rulers, scissors, and irons (if you want to...

What do you think of "woo-woo" moments? Do you take it as a sign of something - maybe even something from the netherworld? What about...

Usually, I hit the ground running and go on to the next thing on a lot of days. I was hoping that wouldn't be the case once I got back...

The pinnacle of the week+ on Kelleys Island culminates for us with the early June Sunday - Kelleys Island 5&10K races. Except when Ryan...

Back in the late 1990s, our family took advantage of Special Love's Under 7 Weekend in Front Royal, Virginia, when son Ryan was three and...

It's late Spring, and Summer travel plans are fast approaching. Do you have your travel plans—either stateside or international all...

You've probably heard people utter, "I'm at this point or that point in something they are doing or where they are in their lives. Or,...

We had a blowout on our really-liked electric tea kettle this morning. We've found that electric kettles are our favorites for quickly...