Category: The Simple Life

  • Walking Through the Inn at Night

    Walking Through the Inn at Night

    Ten years ago, before I started a website, or knew what blogging was all about, I was an innkeeper. My husband Bob and I bought a beautiful 10-room inn in southwestern New Hampshire, an area known as the Monadnock region. I won’t tell you which inn we bought, only that looking back on it, it was…

  • Add Some Color To Your Life

    Add Some Color To Your Life

    “This post contains affiliate links. If you click thru and make a purchase, I’ll get a commission at no additional cost to you.” It’s July. And it’s hot! If you’re like me, I much prefer staying indoors on days like these. But, what to do! Well, add some color to your life. What do I…

  • PJs at 5 — Keep It Simple

    PJs at 5 — Keep It Simple

    “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.” Life has its ways of getting complicated. Suddenly, what started out as a simple chore or endeavor has now grown colossal and seems to be taking over your life. There are…

  • 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…

  • 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…