While fall is officially getting underway and families and friends are gathering for apple picking, leaf peeping, and tailgate parties, there’s another group coming together for an entirely different reason. They are the teachers, librarians, authors, publishers, booksellers, writers, journalists, and readers of all kinds in communities all across the U.S. Why? For Banned BookContinue reading “…All Need to Be Seen and Heard”
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Different People, Places and Perspectives…
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird are novels that still have a place on my bookshelf, in my memory, and especially in my heart. I’ve read them several times. And every summer I pull out F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece setContinue reading “Different People, Places and Perspectives…”
Just Quilling
Coils, scrolls, and zig zags. Waves, marquises, and diamonds. All basic shapes, but when I viewed them together the designs they formed appeared to be very intricate. Which in my world equates to difficult to create. Whether they were flowers, snowflakes, or mosaics, I was intimidated by their creative patterns. I like art that isContinue reading “Just Quilling”
…Forward and Beyond
When I commit to something, actually anything, I commit. I don’t just dip my toe into the water, I cannonball in with a huge splash! So when I became a vegetarian, it extended not only to what I ate, but ingredients in the products I used. No meat, poultry, or fish. No lecithin, gelatin, orContinue reading “…Forward and Beyond”
Every Path Leads…
Blame it on Paul and Linda McCartney. Paul, as in the singer and songwriter with the Beatles and Linda, the photographer and singer with Wings. A fan of both bands, I became more enamored with them in the early 90s. I had been thinking about making a major change in my life for quite someContinue reading “Every Path Leads…”
…Goes the Clock!
Though I am methodical, I didn’t begin by checking off the first item on my “All the Things I Can Possibly Do with My Unscheduled Time While Living in London For the Next Two Years” list because on Day 1 in the U.K., I met a neighbor. As I was exiting our building with ourContinue reading “…Goes the Clock!”
Tick, Tock…
Ever ask someone what they’d do with their time if they had more of it? If they didn’t have to work? Perhaps you’ve daydreamed about it yourself. Common responses to this question include take up an instrument, write a bestselling novel, and travel to exotic places. Others say they’d work part-time in a place theyContinue reading “Tick, Tock…”
Sweet Slices of Happy
Summer just wouldn’t be the same without them. Juicy, refreshing, and fun to sink your teeth into, citrullus lanatus are 92% water. Around for 5,000 years, they were once buried in crypts of kings to sustain them in the afterlife and early pioneers used them as canteens. According to the Guinness Book of World RecordsContinue reading “Sweet Slices of Happy”
One Stroke at a Time
My artist friend Jan was right. Knowing me through our time spent crafting together, she said I needed to look into an art form that would be a good match, specifically because of my love for detail, patterns, and symmetry. As soon as the website I was directed to appeared and I saw the inky blackContinue reading “One Stroke at a Time”
Take Care
I was talking on the phone with my good friend Donna recently. We met almost 30 years ago in a yoga class in Arizona. In our conversation, she mentioned that she always liked how I placed fresh flowers in vases around our home. To this day, I still do. Currently, I have an old-fashioned milkContinue reading “Take Care”
A Journal Journey 