Molly doesn’t live here anymore

Mom didn’t believe that children needed many things, and dad went along whether he agreed or not. “A nice neat simple life”, I remember them constantly saying,” We can’t have the house looking like the Romper Room now can we?” I was told from the time I was a small child that it just wasn’t […]

bumps & bruises

Maybe it is my recent state of mind but I seem to see pain everywhere I look. This reminds me of human wounds.

Snow day and close encounters

We got our first winter snow this morning. I did a quick walk around the yard to take a few photos and I had just finished making my snow Angel. Then I saw a young boy in our backyard. Apparently his dog came over to visit Piper. I was able to get dressed before he […]

a walk in the garden

As I walk around my garden I find little things that make me smile. Sometimes it is a blooming flower, a fancy spiderweb ,a bug or a bird, a squirrel or a fallen branch that looks like a mystical creature. Today on my walk this little metal dragonfly caught my attention. Today’s Quote “Instinct is […]

a moment of reflection

Today has accidentally become a morning of reflection. It started when I received a photo that reminded me of a past that I had stuffed deep in the attic of my brain. Things I really did not want to remember but things that have also been keeping me from being able to enjoy some beautiful […]

confession of a 50 year old crime

When I was around 6 I heard that witches needed crystals to cast spells. My great grandmother Mabel had lots of lovely chandeliers with what I thought were crystals hanging from them so I decided to take /borrow a couple to do magic with. I am sure she wondered what happened to them or maybe […]

Childhood fun

As a kid I was often told to go play outside. For fun I used to put an old purse on a fishing pole, toss it out by the road and then hide in the woods across the street from our house. When people would stop to pick up the purse I would reel it […]

My life is a script from a Korean Drama! Part 2

BIG flashback to 1986. I was freshly divorced, and broke. A friend told me about an ad she saw in the paper which might be a way for me to earn some quick money. I called the number and was told to come in and fill out some paperwork, schedule some lab work and an […]

Today’s Blooms 7-14-17

“If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.” – Jane Austen About Jane Austen Jane Austen (1775-1817), the British writer whose sparkling, socially incisive novels remain extremely popular two centuries after her death, is best known for Pride and Prejudice, which […]