It is Poetry Friday. Our host is the incredibly talented and creative Tracey Kiff-Judson at her blog, Tangles and Tales. Please visit her blog after you read my post for more language-inspired musings. Thanks for hosting, Tracey! It is good to know what you have been up to. Today is my birthday. I am sixty-three….
Welcome to Poetry Friday! Our host this week is Rose at her blog, Imagine the Possibilities. Be sure to stop by her page for more inspiring poetry. Thanks for hosting, Rose. Last week, I wrote about Flanders Fields and WWI. We visited Flanders at the end of our Viking River Cruise, staying in Bruges for…
We completed the Viking River Cruise portion of Holland and Belgium yesterday morning in Antwerp. From there, we have an extension that takes us to Ghent, Brugge, Flanders Field, and Ypres in Belgium. In the morning yesterday, we left for Ghent. We had a walking tour of the city. It was very busy. Our guide…
Hello and welcome to Poetry Friday. Molly Hogan has the roundup here if you’d like some inspiration from her recent work and participation in a workshop. Thanks for hosting, Molly! Summer has gone fast. Our hillside project going to the dock is nearing completion. My husband has worked hard at engineering this space and, as usual, has…
Welcome to Poetry Friday! Our host this week is the super kind and talented Tabatha Yeatts. I’ll link to her post at the end today. This past Sunday, my husband joined me on my new volunteer experience. We drove to a county two hours away to survey for Karner Blue Butterflies. Karner Blues are tiny…
It’s that time of year, mid-summer, and that means it’s time to edit my gardens, my jewelry, and my writing. So, I’ve been doing some of each. My gardens My native plant garden is blooming and looks great this year! Here are some photos: Other gardens are flourishing as well – our wetland area has…
This week, we’ve dealt with smoke from the wildfires in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota and Canada drifting down to infuse our air with haze, pollutants, odors, and sometimes ash. Our air quality index was as high as 500, as it was last night. Just so you understand the scale, 00-50 for an air quality…
Welcome Friends! If you want to know more about Poetry Friday, check this post by children’s author Renee M. LaTulippe. Happy Independence Day, too! I’m back to writing a little poetry and had fun with this acrostic this week: ACCOMPLISH Achieve your goal Complete a mission Congratulate yourself Only you can do this Make time…
Please do something to help our pollinators! Stay tuned this week, Pollinator Week 2026, to read about pollinators, their plight, and what we can do to help them. Since my article in 2021, I’ve become a Certified Pollinator Steward through Pollinator Partnership, planted three native beds, moved to a more rural and Northern Climate, and…
It’s been a tough two weeks. While our vacation was nice, I’ve been in a state of stress since arriving home. Why? Well, that is the focus of today’s post. When we arrived at our son’s in Colorado, I got a notification that the publisher and peer feedback on my 12,000+ word chapter for a…