The Lid Is Down; It Will Type No More Forever

Yesterday my faithful and trusted computer just quit. Not exactly as I have seen computers quit before; it simply refused to connect with the internet, no matter how much I pleaded with, or cajoled it. Nothing would compel it to speak to WiFi, and it would not put anything on the screen, even though the […]

Here’s Your EBT Card and Your Fishing Pole – The DIY Way

When one turns from one street into the parking lot of the grocery store where I shop, or out of it in another direction onto the coastal highway, there always are “homeless” men positioned there, holding hand printed signs on ratty old cardboard, stating they are out of work, and need money for gas, food, or […]

From Sea Monkeys To Baltic Amber – Life Of A Mail Order Shopper

Text message received from daughter who was picking up mail at Post Office: What did you order from Lithuania? I did not know. Texted her back, and told her I was pretty sure I had not sent for a mail order husband. Or a book of Lithuanian Fairy Tales. Or mead; I cannot remember why I […]

A Song Flung Up To Heaven; I Love You Always…

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” April 4, 1928 ~ May 28, 2014

More Than Flowers Or Flags, Please Meet John V. Apple

There is a belief time changes things. I choose to think that time encompasses and embraces all things in its forward movement. We may speak, behave, and view life differently now than in days gone by; but, I do not think those long ago ways are gone, they just are no longer used. And so it is […]