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....
I remember the sitcom episode where Jerry Seinfeld was dating a woman that he described as a “low talker” — and somehow not understanding her words, he agreed to wear a ridiculous, ruffled pirate...
