I see them all over the place………….people who have been hired to hoist promotional signs at busy intersections, usually near the businesses being promoted. Not far from my house, an inexpensive haircut place uses...
When our family moved to an island off the coast of North Carolina in the mid nineteen eighties, a beautiful purebred Samoyed was part of our family. It was the dog breed to which...
There’s an eighty-something man who lives a mile or so up the road from me and sometimes if he’s out in his yard when I pass his house on my dog walk, I stop...
When I was out walking last evening, there was a herd of deer in a field just up the road. They got a little freaky as my dog and I got closer and as...
Earlier this week, the screen in my kitchen window was honored to be the guest host for the birth of a beautiful yellow and black Swallowtail Butterfly. I would have liked to have been...
I just came back from my morning walk. I had my iPod set to shuffle and things started out pretty upbeat because most of the songs I have downloaded have a good, fast pace...
Early in my blogging, I wrote a post about a tough talking, ex-Mafia dude from New Jersey who was in school at a community college here and struggling through a freshman English class. I...
I was in a used book store the other day. It happened to be a busy place at that particular time of day and the proprietor had several stacks of books that various people...
When I was growing up, I desperately wanted pets. My three siblings had had dogs before I was born and by the time I came along a lot later, my parents were finished with...
I’ve known several people that have gotten mad about a real or even a perceived slight and made a conscious decision to stay angry — for years and sometimes even forever. People make mistakes....
