Post 30/2023. If I were given to complaining, whining and blaming I'd have had a field day one day this week. We went to South Haven, Michigan to get peaches, blueberries and other produce at farmers' markets. We stopped for breakfast in Niles, then took mostly country roads to enjoy slow byways travel. Z If …
Saturday AM musings
Post 29/2023. I got up early to finish this week's blog before we leave for a day out. I was at the computer for more than an hour when Marty called my attention to a beautiful sky created by the rising sun. I took time out for breakfast and then cooked and cut the kernels …
July’s dubious honor
Post 28/2023 . . . As July temperatures hit the hottest month on record worldwide, what augers for August? That's a subject best left to meteorologists who in their branch of atmospheric science have advanced technology and sophisticated tools at their disposal. Nevertheless, one needs to pay frequent attention to weather forecasting, whether you're a …
New template, same ole
Post 27/2023 . . . I'm trialing a new template, aiming to make my blog mobile-friendly, and a bit perked up. "All things grow with love," says the plaque. Hollyhock nods in agreement. Happy week We're happy for a week's visit with friends and family in Ontario. The time includes: Baseball games where great-nephews are …
Be careful what you wish for
Post 26/2023 Friday 14 July . . . I'll take the risk of sharing a personal experience while it's fresh--as well as reference a thought that rolls back the years. A dream Tuesday morning had me involved in a delightfully animated conversation in a circle of recent acquaintances. We had just returned to the US …
Portfolio search
Post 25/2023 Saturday 8 July . . . This week I searched through boxes for a folder related to a seminar I helped plan last century. I found it! There it was, at the bottom of one of the boxes tagged, "Portfolio." (I'm using the word portfolio in the sense of examples of work one …
Prizing print
Post 24/2023 Saturday 1 July . . . Much of my reading, apart from books, happens online. Certainly not all of it, but more than I ever did during my gainful employment years as a writer-editor. This week I concentrated on riffling through magazines passed on by friends Willard and Alice. What pleasure and agony …
About books and libraries that lend them
Post 23/2023 Sunday 25 June . . . I like this quote from Oscar Wilde (Irish poet,1854-1900): "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well-written, or badly written. (The Pictures of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface). To paraphrase: let the bookmarks fall where they may. Let it be known …
Oops, wrong word
Post 22/2023 Saturday 17 June . . . In the 10 June blog I used the word exasperating instead of exacerbating concerning people facing severe health conditions. I wrote, "exasperating health conditions." I should have said, "exacerbating," as in facing intense, or "severe health conditions." I'll just use the word "lovely" to describe the flowers …
Pausing over obits
Post 21/2023 Saturday 10 June . . . I've been reading a crop of religion-related magazines friends have passed on to us. The latest post-Cornwall bundle (for the winter/spring months we spent in the UK) includes Anabaptist World, Canadian Mennonite, Christian Century and a few more. Thank you, Willard and Alice for upping our interest …
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