As we sat the other night in the living room, watching a movie crowded around Tom’s laptop despite the fact that we have a den with a 52 inch television just sitting in it (another post all together) we heard someone knocking. We all stopped and looked...
I am writing this now and know that I won’t post it immediately. I cannot. The words however are here, rolling around in my head and they need to be put down on cyber “paper”. For those of you that follow the blog and know me personally, you know that...
Photo: The Institute of Heraldry
“Godspeed” a word, a wish, a hope. It is a wish for a speedy, successful, safe journey. The phrase is used in the launching of naval vessels and during NASA space flights.
It is our wish for those Vermonters, 1210 in...
Today, November 5th is Guy Fawkes Night. It is an annual celebration of the night that Guy Fawkes and a group of others, known as the Gunpowder Plot of 5, attempted to blow up the English Parliament. It is celebrated in England, Newfoundland, the...
Everything old is new again…isn’t that the way that the saying goes? We have a collection of the Calvin and Hobbes books on our bookshelf. They have been a part of our family right around the time we became a family or at least since we became a...
