It seems that no matter how old one is when August arrives, there is still the sense of squeezing something in before autumn is upon us. Our boys are grown and gone. We are retired and still this weekend I felt like we were trying hard to squeeze in one last something….before the cooler weather…
Welcome to Poetry Friday! Our host this week is the friendly and accessible author of the Wondering and Wandering Blog, Christie! Please check out her webpage for her post today as well as links to other poets, authors, and all round supportive people! Thanks, Christie for hosting! My first time hosting will be next week,…
Nature is powerful! If you pay any attention to the world around you or to the news, you already know this. If nature’s power were not enough, we see that nature is changing because climate is changing. Wildfires rage in the western United States. Floods that used to occur once every decade are now occurring…
I slept fitfully last night. I had some mild anxiety about a presentation today – the first student presentation I’ve done since the pandemic started. Although I was confident with the information I was presenting and how I was presenting it (this took a little bargaining), there was still that familiar twinge of fear and…
Peaches are in season! They are one of my favorite fruits! Since I wanted to preserve some of that sweet flavor of late summer for the cold days of winter, I decided to make freezer jam. And, not just the standard strawberry freezer jam that our mother’s used to make! I found a recipe for…
A rainy Saturday is a good day to pursue projects. This includes crafting, home improvements, home maintenance, and even cooking up some nice treats or processing all those vegetables that seem to be coming in with abundance. Of course doing all one’s projects in one Saturday is usually not possible. But, we strive to get…
One of my recent writing projects has been gathering and editing some poems for chap books. Chap books are short (20-40) pages of poetry based on a theme. In essence, they are a short book. Historically, English peddlers sold chap books as cheap (chap/cheap) entertainment for the masses. The word, chap, dates back to 1824….
Last night I awoke at 1:40 a.m.. I was wide awake, bothered by thoughts that I’ve had before concerning conversations, comments, things I notice during social events, and even just while out in the community. I felt like a cow chewing on cud swallowed previously and brought up again to be chewed on some more….
Typically, we are quiet people. Rarely is there a television on in our home before 8 p.m. and only occasionally is there music playing. I like the quiet, but I do like the sounds of nature. Recently, we’ve been cooler in the midwest. This is especially true of the temperatures at our cabin this past…