Primarily, my inspiration for creating jewelry or poetry comes from three places. Color, travel, and nature are my biggest influences when I create with beads or words. I have just recently returned from an 11 day trip to some of our National Parks, including Arches, the Grand Canyon, Saguaro, and the Petrified Forest. What better…
Yesterday, I wrote about the first five days of our trip through some of the National Parks of the American Southwest. We spent two days in Moab, Utah at Arches National Park, two days in the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, with the very first day of our trip as a long travel day…
Last night I was struggling with what topic to write about for Poetry Friday today. I tried a to draft a couple of poems. It was not working – the creative juices – so to speak – were not flowing. If you’ve read any of my more personal blogs over the last month, you’ll know…
Needing something different to write about today, I named this post Wonderful World Wednesday. Today’s post focuses on one of the Great Lakes – Lake Ontario. If you’ve never seen one of the Great Lakes in the United States, you need to get to one of the five as soon as you can! They include…
Someone I just met asked me what my most recent degree was, knowing I used to be a nurse. I answered that I had obtained a second master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin at Steven’s Point in Natural Resources with a focus in Environmental Education and Interpretation (EE/EI). I responded that I was essentially…
Fortunate Genes I consider my family both unusual and fortunate in that we are all capable of self-teaching. From building furniture to growing a fruit orchard, or building a house, From creating jewelry, games, and wallets on a CNC machine, From learning water color painting in grad school, to composing music, From origami to colored…
The end of summer is about transitions. Anyone involved in education at any level or anyone with children realize this is a time of change. School aged children move to a new grade level, meet a new teacher, and see a new classroom. College aged students return to their studies at their campuses where they…
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…
Today I am posting two blogs. The reason? Tomorrow, I host the Poetry Friday Round Up! What does tomorrow have to do with today? It has to do with the Poetry Friday participants that are down under and other places a day a head of the United States across the globe. I’ll post for Poetry…