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Would you believe it -- I worked on my holiday card today! Hey, to my credit, I am not one of those who recreates Christmas in September. I ...

You have to shake your head in disbelief when you get your camera back from repair (after a two month absence) and you realize that a whole ...

Oh I do love some Gopnik early on a Sunday morning! (He's a writer for the New Yorker, one I have liked for a long time, ever since he w...

I guess there is truth to the claim that we are constantly comparing ourselves to others and with social media, we do it more often and to o...

Ed and I went out for a drive today. Oh, there was a goal (Farm and Fleet, plus the chocolate store: we needed to resupply at both!), but it...

I read a lot about travel. Other people's trips and journeys. Stories that combine personal elements of discovery with movement, with tr...

Do you think you are open to new ideas? I bet you answered yes. Most people think they are. Most of us believe we are flexible, nonjudgmenta...

Attitude counts for so much! Sure, there are people whose lives have been rocked to the core by the pandemic or by other horrific tragedy. I...

There are people out there who, from early childhood, feel the need to tell stories. Spoken or written -- it hardly matters. It's what y...