Category: Blog

  • The Late Great Dale Robertson

    The Late Great Dale Robertson

    “This post may contain affiliate links. If you click thru and make a purchase, I’ll get a commission at no additional cost to you.” It all started with a Facebook post I saw last week. I was looking at videos; don’t even ask me how I found it, probably tooling around on Google, but I…

  • 3 Favorite Summer Knitting Projects

    3 Favorite Summer Knitting Projects

    This post may contain affiliate links. Which simply means if you click on it, I get a small commission. It is finally feeling like Spring! Summer, actually; temps in the high 80s and low 90s this week. That’s okay, because all Spring New Jersey has felt like a cold cavern. Winter coats and all that.…

  • Finding Silence in All the Noise

    Finding Silence in All the Noise

    Note: this post may include affiliate links. All this means is that if you click the link, you’ll be taken to that product and if you purchase it, I get a small compensation, that’s all. When my husband and I returned to New Jerey we settled in the same town we had moved out of…

  • Knowing Failure When You See It

    Knowing Failure When You See It

    Are we programmed to win or what? It seems from the time we acknowledge consciousness all we know is winning. Gotta be first, gotta be best, gotta be head of the class, gotta win that trophy, gotta gotta gotta. THEN when things don’t go as planned it seems as if the Chaos-gods have chosen us…

  • 5 Ways to LOVE Books For a Lifetime

    5 Ways to LOVE Books For a Lifetime

    Been reading lots and lots of books this month. Which is almost gone. Not the books, the month. August came and went in a flurry and a hurry. When you’re busy every day, that’s what happens. So, while I’m happily reading my way through ‘how to write a novel’ and ‘how to write that mystery’…

  • 5 Baby Steps to Downsizing at Home

    5 Baby Steps to Downsizing at Home

    Does it sometimes feel like you’re living with too much stuff? Every room you look in there’s just too much stuff. Open a closet or cabinet and there it is again! That stuff. There are ways to deal with this, you know. Baby steps to downsizing at home is not as difficult as you may…