Vera Bradley Switch-a-Roo

I was visiting my brother’s family in Georgia. I went to the bathroom, left my purse in the living room. When I returned, there was a Vera Bradley purse the same style as mine but a different pattern–the Capri Blue. Inside was all my stuff! My old black/brown purse was gone. Okay–that’s not what really [...]

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The Vera Bradley Plunge & Other Purse Notes

There was a time when my purse always matched my shoes–always! This was pre-kids, in my twenties. Of course, after having a baby, who would have time to coordinate shoes and purses? I gave it up for a large utilitarian purse.  After the years when I thought I would carry a perennial diaper bag, I settled [...]

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What We Know that Europe Does Not Know – Part 1

To be fair–I am patriotic–I have to write about the good aspects of the great United States as opposed to the good things about Europe. Here’s what we do better: fast food and food courts. We know that we can travel on the interstate in the U.S. and find eating establishments along the way whether [...]

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My Absence

I’ve been telling myself I have to get back to blogging, so here I am. I have been incredibly busy lately–traveling the world–okay, I’m just making it sound better than it was! We had the Europe trip in May/June, and I plan to write more about it. Then, I started a new job; then we [...]

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What Europe Knows That We Don’t Know-Part 1

The Romance of Trains! I’ve been saying this for a while. The United States needs to return to train travel. And not just in the big cities. It used to be you could travel a short distance to a train station and ride a train to almost anywhere. Now, we get in our big cars [...]

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Porch Party

My family likes to have get-togethers. That could be an understatement. My sister Janet and her family have a perfect place for a cook-out (whether she agrees–especially after the clean-up–is another story!). She has a nice big yard with a fabulous view (she’s hosted 2 weddings there), a back yard with a trampoline, and best of [...]

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Critters

Have you ever seen a baby squirrel? This morning, I was outside watering some new plants when I came upon a baby squirrel on the deck. It was scared of me, so it ran toward the screened in porch only to be frightened by Poopsie (the cat) who was inside the screened porch but certainly [...]

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Shasta Daisies!

Last summer, I planted a packet of shasta daisy seeds. Wow! I had shasta daisies everywhere! I gave them away, transplanted them all over the yard, sold them at the aucton and at a yard sale, and I still have so many. So, a quick way for some pretty flowers, plant the seeds. You may [...]

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So I wrote a little book . . . .

So, I wrote a little book called Milk Glass Moon. It is a plain little book; it won’t end up in the halls of literary greats. But, it has brought pleasure to many people already.  The people it is about were plain old country folks.  A small tale, but its impact was huge! Once, there [...]

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Darn it!

Last night, my husband was helping me with trying to figure out how to work the blog, and he said, “Darn it!” And, I, trying to match his usual wit, said, “I don’t have a darning needle.” That got me to thinking about all the household tasks that we don’t do any more–like darning socks! [...]

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