Category: life experience

  • The Challenges of Blogging Daily

    As many know, I’ve been splitting my writing time between two blogs for the last three months. I am still posting here, on WordPress, and I also have a page on Medium.com just using my name. You can search for it that way if you wish. Otherwise, I’ll post a link here for you to…

  • Today is Silent Sunday. All the photos of copyrighted and taken by me. The theme is one of my choosing. I hope you enjoy these wordless posts. Thank you!

  • I didn’t realize how hard it might be to pack for a combined trip this fall after just moving ten short weeks ago! We went to New York to see my parents in July and didn’t have trouble packing but this is different. We are going to a wedding in Buffalo, and that means taking…

  • Poetry Friday: The Fabulous Fungi of August

    You may or may not have noticed but I took a break from posting to Poetry Friday last month. We moved in June, were settling in during July, and I started writing on Medium in August. I needed some change and I got it. But one of the most fantastic things I did in August…

  • Making Myself Vulnerable to Feedback

    Today, I posted a short story on my Medium.com site. I hope you take the time to read it. It is lengthy, about twice as long as my usual posts. However, I want some feedback on this story. The tough part of submitting to publications is that very often don’t give you any kind of…

  • Shopping?! I Don’t Like It Anymore!

    I wrote my blog on Medium today. You can view it, here. Thanks for your support this month, as I have written on two platforms, Medium and WordPress. I am spending some time experimenting with my writing and I hope to produce some pieces that are engaging and entertaining, as well as informative. Please stick…

  • One of the most positive things about moving is that our magazine deliveries have stopped. We were getting three issues of the Food Network Magazine, two of Eating Well, a copy of All Recipes, and Cooking Light. The Cooking Light magazine was the only one I had subscribed to and expected to receive. The others…

  • Silent Sunday: Animal Antics

    Today is Silent Sunday. It is one day during the week when I post photos of my own on a theme of my choosing. Enjoy these animal antics! Thanks! There is no permission to duplicate in any form without my express permission. Thank you!

  • My blog for the day considers the changing night sounds in the forest. I hope you read it. Today, I posted on Medium.com. Visit my post, here. What do you think? Are you hearing less at night? If so, why do you think that is?

  • Making Homemade Pasta For the First Time

    My sister-in-law gave us a pasta-making attachment for our kitchen aide mixer for Christmas. It was a complete gift including a pasta-making cookbook, drying rack, ravioli forms, and three attachments for the mixer. Last Wednesday, we perused the cookbook and decided on an egg-based ravioli filled with a cheese and basil mixture. The basil was…