Sun pours down like honey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqmQ829qYRc For Poetry Friday - a Mary Oliver poem read by a woman in a car who posted it on YouTube. I love...

Okay, not really catting around but it's fun to say. Speaking of...(nice how I worked this in, huh?) cat lovers take note - a really ch...

Starting to look through the vacation photos - here is the grass at the edge of the deck at the place we stay... I also liked these rock lin...

Some bright and bold summer reds to welcome the new week. "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do....

and yet in my raised temperature haze, I recalled I had this photo...I think times like this make a girl realize she has become addicted to ...

Was writing a review of a book on Goodreads and thought I would drag some of it here since it (the book) got me to thinking about travel. Y...

A small and solo road trip last weekend - I was aiming for a crafts show but got sidetracked by a sign for a sale at the Lillian August outl...

eighty degrees and a few rumbles of distant thunder even as the weather woman announces the storm has passed us and is on route to Long Isla...

A discussion at library - how would you know when a children's librarian has really snapped? Puppet starts saying inappropriate things?...

I was asked that recently and the answer was blueberries. Love them in cereal, love them in jam, love them as is. I make several pies ev...

Much too much stuff piling up so here's a sampling from the inane to the profane, pick your poison: http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.c...

Sad news upon opening my mail this morning that Randy Pausch, a computer scientist and professor at Carnegie Mellon Univ. and all around spe...

Okay, experimenting: I want to insert a link to a Feist youtube (mainly because her videos are fun and in this case, the sort of thing I t...

Have just started up a new blog over at http://librarymermaid.blogspot.com/ Why? I need more distraction besides family, guilt and rogue ...

Altered road sign somewhere near Guilford, Ct.

...but some people call them fireflies. I guess it depends on where you hail from. After a dinner date with the husband, we went on a wal...

When my youngest son was ready to move into his own room (he slept in ours well into his toddler years but used his room for play), these we...