All Hallows Giving
Halloween is so much fun! Sometimes I dress for the occasion. Sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I don’t wait for the holiday to dress. We always plan to answer the door and give out whole...
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Fall Magic
I purchased Asclepias tuberosa, aka butterfly weed or milkweed (not butterfly bush) from a local native plant nursery about 4 years ago. I planted the small starter in the sun down by our sidewalk....
How We Remember Tragedy
I don’t always remember tragedies on their anniversary, not even the most personally devastating of them. I’ve often been to the Field of Flags that Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield displays in remembrance of the...
Heroine with an “E”
Language is fluid, and the viscosity is decreasing. To keep up, dictionaries add new words, deem others archaic, and, especially in smaller editions, remove words as they fall from use. Change can be uncomfortable....
The Marriot Carpet is Dead. Long Live the Marriot Carpet
I’ve been going to the Dragon Con parade since those years when my then husband wasn’t interested in doing things with me. After a couple of times alone I took my oldest. He was...
Positivity is a Dragonfly
It’s been a rough few weeks. Big things, small things, shocking things, simple irritations, life changing events, and on and on. It’s been one of those times when you realize that great big huge...
Out of Place
I am the least conventional thinker I know. I’m willing to conform when appropriate, just sometimes clueless about where that proverbial box is. I had a pre-calc professor who lectured on convention, how the...
Ballooning: Lighter than Air
Ballooning is one of my fondest pursuits. We’ve had fun with so many people. We’ve shared wonderful experiences, as well as tragedies, with friends, family and strangers in balloons. That English teacher who opened...
I Put On My Big Girl Pants and Got On the Ski Lift at Natural Bridge
Do you ever push your personal boundaries, try to blow past your hang-ups? Or, at least take baby steps? I, the person who would rarely turn down a hot air balloon ride, am afraid...