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I recently read a novel by Elin Hilderbrand titled The Five-Star Weekend. A quick synopsis: the story is about a middle-aged woman who recently lost her husband to an auto accident and has trouble coming to terms with his death. She realizes her perfect life is not so perfect anymore and that her fame isn’t […]

I am coming up on the four-year anniversary of the start of my blog. I haven’t written a post since April as it seems time got away from me. Summer has been busy, and we also spent several weeks getting over a bad cold. I am glad it wasn’t Covid. Last week was the first

2023 is a new year, offering each of us 365 possibilities to be the best “ME” we can be. I am not a big believer in making New Year’s resolutions, as resolving to do a specific thing can be stressful and disappointing when you fail. If I resolve to lose weight and don’t, then I

Many retire without a plan for their future, and I don’t mean a monetary goal. Let’s say you retire at age sixty, and today’s life expectancy is seventy-nine. What are you going to do with those nineteen years? Or, on the other hand, suppose you are still of employment age. Are you developing a skill

As I sit here at my computer, I can look out the window to our back yard. The temperature is currently 10F degrees, and they are only calling for a high today of 29F degrees, but at least, for now, all the snow has melted. Living in the woods like we do, that means it

After getting, what to me, were wonderful reviews on Amazon for my first novel, “Justice For Lindsey,” I decided to write more stories. I developed two new characters, and published their first two stories as novellas. This was the beginning of the Sophie London-Evin Foster series. Sophie is an established author of mysteries and Evin

When I retired the end of 2009, we had plans of spending each winter in warmer digs, and that did happen until Covid invaded our nation. We have spent the past two winters at home in northern Michigan, and because of it, I developed a new hobby: writing books. My first novel, Justice For Lindsey,

Was your 2021 better than your 2020? I know ours certainly was. Oh, the year did have its challenges, but I’d rather look at the glass as half full, so, all in all, it was a fantastic year. Of course, we chose not to go south for the winter, so that was an experience we

Autumn is my favorite time of year because the weather is milder, and the colors are brighter.  It is the time of year when the trees shed their leaves, plants become dormant, and nature prepares itself for winter. Peculiar fungi grows at the bottom of old tree trunks, adding to the mystery of the season.

July is almost over, and our garden here in northern Michigan is beginning to show promise. Of course, my hubby doesn’t have a large garden like he did when our four children were young. Now that it is just the two of us, all he plants are about six tomato plants and six pepper plants.