There is a joke about how to tell if you live in a rural, suburban or urban neighborhood: If you stand naked on the front porch and the neighbors can’tsee you, it’s rural. If you stand naked on the front porch and the neighbors callthe cops, it’s suburban. If you stand naked more »
If you peek around my kitchen, currently perched in a wooden basket on top of the microwave, you will find an empty mason jar. This jar has moved around the kitchen quite a lot the last few months. For a while it was sitting next to my sink, it’s clear glass catching the light and more »
I mournfully peered out of my living room window to my patch of daffodils by the sidewalk. The “daffys” were blooming with their boisterous yellow cheerfulness. They had been bringing a joyful smile to my heart every day as I anticipated the green grass and the blue skies of spring that they announce every year. more »
I was despondent as I pulled out the mop and started working on cleaning up the floors. The white tracks were all over the wood parquet in the front hall and the dining room. The footprints were unmistakable, they were imprints from the tread on the bottom of shoes. The tracks also wove an unwelcome more »
In many people’s homes this Christmas, there is an empty blue chair. — It may not be literally blue, excepting the La-Z- Boy recliners and the BarcaLoungers and other upholstered pieces of furniture. It could be a regular old brown wooden kitchen chair. It may not even be a chair; it could be a couch more »
“Honey, could you please bring in some more chairs?” Our Christmas gatherings would be complete failures if all of the people that we love did not each have a chair to sit down on. Our most beloved and frequently used chairs come from our dining room. We have a lovely set of maple Hitchcock Chairs more »
On Saturday, September 23rd, 2023 at 2:50 am, EST, something interesting happened. The sun crossed an imaginary line above the earth’s equator. And for a single moment, the earth was neither tilted away or toward the sun by 23.5 degrees. It was perpendicular to the sun. While we all probably missed it because we more »
It is that time of year again, when our kids are fortunate to get to go back to school. You can’t miss it. The stores have set up huge displays of school supplies: pushpins and pencils, post-it notes and pens. Our college students have packed up all of their “most essential” items and are now more »
Do you like rainy days? Typically, we humans consider rain a sad event. We may use the phrase, “Raining on your parade”, or we talk about events being washed out. All of us have made plans to go camping or to have a picnic, only to be met with disappointment as rain or thunderstorms sweep more »
Bigger, better, stronger, faster! The holiday spending season is upon us and stores are using every minute to promote the latest and greatest gadgets and gifts. Everywhere you look, you can find huge televisions with curved screens with quantum digital processing, phones with multiple cameras and a telephoto lenses, super cool laptops and virtual reality more »
