When I was small, one of my favorite “make-believe’s” was being a newspaper reporter.  Someone had given me an old Remington manual typewriter with keys so hard to push that it took a Herculean effort from my stubby little fingers.  Nevertheless, I...

Okay, call me Scrooge, call me old fashioned, call me  a stick in the mud, but I simply don’t get it. When and why did the holiday season become this frenzied, maniacal rush to buy things at the cheapest possible price? The lead story on our local...

  Through many dangers toils and snares I have already come, ‘Tis grace that brought me safe this far And grace will lead me home.  ~Amazing Grace, by John Newton    I sat in church last Sunday and listened to our choir singing these...

This is one of my favorite pathways in Island Walk – it follows one of the larger lakes that are embedded throughout the five square miles of this community.  Late yesterday afternoon, I took my customary stroll, thinking ahead to next month when we...

“I can relax really well here,” my husband says, propping his feet on the ottoman and settling comfortably into the chair.  We’re sitting on the lanai at our home in Florida, watching the sun set behind the pond across the road.  His bottle of...