White Wedding Dress. Table Top Ferns of Green. Comfortable shoes for dancing. Favorite Comfort Foods Served. The first dance – Classic music gathers friends and family, Glenn Miller’s In the Mood affects old and young, alike. Smiles all around. Reusable straws gift us all – present or not. Weddings reflect the bride and groom. Their love…
Teachers who post to the Slice of Life blog forum offered by TwoWritingTeachers.org pick their one little word (OLW) in January to guide them forward in the coming year. I have not done that with any success, yet. But, tonight I offer three key phases that I realize affect my life and how I live…
Today, I went into the field with our land manager and another coworker to do some work on invasive species – namely, buckthorn. It was storming when I awoke around 6 a.m. and I was not sure we’d go due to thunder and lightning but it seemed to be clearing as it approached the time…
When you think of a modest person, you do not equate them with the following actions: Blowing their own horn… Boasting… Bragging… Conceitedness… Merriam Webster defines modesty “as the quality of not being too proud or confident about yourself or your abilities.” Some very accomplished people are modest. Have you ever wondered how they arrive…
It took me until I was in my 40’s to discover (or rediscover) my creative side. In school, I was a serious student, striving for straight A’s (usually getting them), and leaving little to chance through unpreparedness or lack of completing the assigned work. From high school, I carried this work ethic through college and…
Last Tuesday I did something I have never done before. I went on a field trip with the Master Gardener group to which I have belonged since 2004. Their trip was to a place in Decorah Iowa called Seed Savers Exchange. I’ve always been interested in the process of saving seeds, and here we got…
You might have noticed I have not blogged much this week. There are a few reasons for this. One was that I had surpassed the last two years of blog views for the month of August. This made me very happy, as I was not sure I was going to be able to do it….
A couple of weeks ago I was enjoying the last of my free 3 months of Sirius satellite radio by listening to 70’s on 7. I enjoy this music as it takes me back to the days of being a young, carefree child. Sometimes this station plays the same songs over and over but today’s…
Today was busy, but a good busy. The fact it was good is important due to a slight meltdown I experienced last night. I told my twenty-year-old I am going to have to start paying him counseling fees! The First First I started my day by driving an hour to a rural village where I…