Let’s Rock On!

This morning, while I peacefully sat drinking coffee, and chatting with my family; seven year old granddaughter, who had been studying me from across the living room, said, “Grandma, you look just like a rock star who grew up”. Wow! I’m good with that! Eric Clapton Grace Slick Sting Stevie Nicks Paul McCartney Valleygrail And if […]

Old Glory’s Day!

June 14, 1777 – Continental Congress adopts the following: Resolved: That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. The States represented by a star, with their date of admission: Delaware (December 7, 1787), Pennsylvania (December […]

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 […]

No More Pencils, No More Books; No More Teachers’ Dirty Looks; It’s Summer Vacation!

It is the middle of June, and when I was growing up in my little valley home, that meant school was out, and we were free for the summer. I still can hear the whoops and hollers as we were dismissed from class and ran pell-mell to our bikes, jumped on, and pedaled as fast […]

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 […]