Once upon a time, during the course of my second marriage which was… well… a learning experience that lasted 23 years, I happened to find myself “window shopping” in a lovely store called The Peasant Shop. …

Praying for the Bad People I am not — and never have been — a Christian. That said, I am a huge fan of Jesus. I have a good bit of wall space devoted to him in my studio. My mother did her best to make me Catholic. The effort…

I was in my early 70’s when Covid 19 came along, and Covid was in its earliest stages… it had only hit the national news as an ‘item’ the day I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and it got me! I’d seen the announcement of the…

“Vicki & Debi” My sister and I were born 14 months apart. She had been conceived during the period of time when I was being used as a guinea pig in a clinical trial that was searching for a cure for tuberculosis, which I had. I’d received it as an…

The very first pet I can remember having was a dog. Her name was Lily and she had beautiful long black hair. I was only a kid, and no one ever ‘identified’ her to me as any particular kind of a dog. She wasn’t allowed in the house and was…

If I am correctly interpreting the responses from random folks who have had the dubious opportunity to be in the near neighborhood of me sneezing, my sneezes are… not what most folks expect from a 76 year old woman… or possibly even a truck driver. …

“Happy.” There’s an overused word. That’s my opinion of course… but I’ve given it a lot of thought over the course of the last five or six years… that’s a long time to be thinking on one word, I know, but… the mere fact that it’s so frequently in my…

Late Fall in the Hills I’m just gonna come right out and say it: I hate traveling. I hate traveling that involves going someplace I can’t drive to myself in one day, especially traveling that involves me being transported in an overly large vehicle with numerous other people in it…

I was, in my youth, and through my 30’s and early 40’s I had presented myself as what most men would term “a hot chick.” I dressed the part, and my hips covered a lot of side-to-side territory when I walked. I looked young for my age, just as my…