Dog and a Beer Ever After Kind

ESSAY/HUMOR/LOVE/MARRIAGE— The Happily Ever After Marriage handbook is filled with fine print. With a healthy dose of humor a marriage will survive lots of hills and valleys, and a few frogs. I’m in the backseat of a beat up Dodge Dart, sipping Boone’s Farm Apple Wine and listening to a guy describe how he’d shoved Read More →

Sports Bras

ESSAY/HUMOR – Sometimes an Angel appears in the strangest places to help you in times of trouble. And sometimes she takes you shopping for sexy underwear — I have zero fashion sense, and a good excuse. A writer’s life permits wearing yesterday’s clothes today and possibly tomorrow. I’d be completely at ease in a remote Read More →

Elf on the Shelf

ESSAY/HOLIDAY HUMOR – This holiday season, American taxpayers must be vigilant against the government’s most adorable spy.– The news stories of the NSA spying on regular, law-abiding taxpayers raises concern for my privacy. Although such tactics against me would guarantee its snoopers a blue ribbon for the longest yawn (current record is 6 minutes, 46 Read More →

Dad in his happy place.

INSPIRATIONAL ESSAY – We know life doesn’t always go as planned or desired. But with a declaration of what you really want, the path to your ultimate destination just might be paved with a lifetime journey of personal joy. — My father was an artist. All his life was devoted to creating fine art. An Read More →

Giant Blueberry Muffin

HUMOR ESSAY – It’s funny “half” the things you miss about the people you love after they die —   I pulled a bag of blueberries from the freezer to make some muffins. Due to favorable growing conditions and some savvy harvesting, from time to time I can relive a bit of the past season, until Read More →

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INSPIRATION — Finding our purpose in life or fulfilling a dream is often a lifelong journey. Sadly, often it dies untapped. But many of us know that itchy place, and we’re this close, if only we could reach out and give it a good scratch. Better hurry. Do you have a burning itch that needs to be Read More →

Sign, Symbol, Deer

HUMOR — Gardening in a woodland location is complicated by deer who love to chomp on tender flower and vegetable gardens. In search of organic and humane population control methods, the best defense is exposed. Today my quest is for a natural pest control method to deter deer from devouring my gardens, preferably without sophisticated Read More →