It’s been a long time since I was an undergraduate student “in college” – forty years ago this month to be exact! The Dream But, last night I dreamt I was an undergraduate student moving into my dormitory. It was vivid. My real roommate was there with me. We were not freshman, as we knew…
Today is Silent Sunday. It is a day that I do not write a post but offer my own photographs on a theme of my choosing. We travelled to Minnesota this weekend and experienced Stillwater for the first time! Enjoy! All photographs are copyrighted by Carol Labuzzetta. No permission exists to duplicate in any form…
Welcome to Poetry Friday! I am so happy to have the opportunity to host the round up for this week. If you want to know what Poetry Friday is, click here for a great explanation!. After reading my post, don’t forget to leave a comment and then add your link! Fingers crossed this works. It…
I find myself twittering about Twitter. How many of you have twitter accounts? Do you find them useful to your writing, either to get notifications of where to submit your writing or to market your publications? Recently, I was informed that I “should” have a twitter account if I want to be informed of where…
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,…
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…
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…