I’m a complete amateur when it comes to web design, I admit it. However, I’m trying to make my website better and it seems that everything I try is met with resistance. All I get is the circle of death. The problem is I’m such a know-nothing that I don’t even know where to start...
I’ve been going through my gmail inbox, trying to get rid of the backlog, and it’s so overwhelming I had to figure out a way to proceed. One idea I had was to search for certain senders and then delete most (or all) of the emails from them. I started with easy ones, like my...
I was taken aback the other day when our son mentioned in passing, “Well, I didn’t grow up in a spiritual household”. It made me ponder the nature of spirituality. I don’t believe that religion and spirituality are the same thing, but what do I mean by spirituality? We didn’t talk much about it as...
I’m sitting here in my dining room looking out at the beautiful snowstorm raging on and it reminds me of when I had bronchitis many years ago. It hung on forever, much like this winter. Finally, I decided to ignore the discomfort, the coughing, the lack of energy, and pretend it was all better. I...
I have to admit that I’m bandying words about in my title that I don’t exactly understand. I just read through most of the Wiki article on the polar vortex and I’m not much wiser than I was before. What I understood is that polar vortexes are always present, but their activity varies from year...
I recently completed a run of Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, an opera that I (and almost everyone else) know a few tunes from (Summertime, I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’, It Ain’t Necessarily So), but I had never listened to all the way through. The process was both challenging and moving to me. I...
Despite the short days we’ll be experiencing for the next couple of months (let’s not kid ourselves), I’m encouraged just knowing the days are getting longer now. Every day we get a few more minutes of sunlight. For me, the worst part of winter is the lack of light. I’m pretty sure I’m not as...
I mentioned a few posts ago (now I can’t find the reference; maybe I dreamt it!) that in the fall after planting the tulip bulbs, I covered each area with a heavy stone to dissuade the squirrels from digging them up. I promised that I’d let you know how successful that idea was. I was...
As a non-religious person, every year I’m becoming more and more attracted to the idea of celebrating the natural rhythms of the earth instead of celebrating man-made (in my view) occasions like Christmas or Easter, (I’m using Christian examples because my background is more Christian than anything else, but any man-made occasion will do as...