Occasionally I sleep in, but not too often. Mother Nature usually encourages me to answer her call…
Bits and Pieces
New book
Recently I’ve been holed up. It was not unlike working in a salt mine. The reason was not the…
The daffodil principle
Sent to me, from a friend who cares, through the magic of email, via the internet, is the…
Busy times
Boy, have I been busy lately. It is fall time; it is country fair time; where the summer has gone I…
Juglans
Ironic, ain’t it? The proper pronunciation of my heading this week reminds me strongly of the…
Costa Rica
From a writer friend of mine, who has wintered in Costa Rica, comes a five-page email, excerpts of…
Bart Russell
Not many of you readers within the realm of the Wellington Advertiser’s drop-off area will…
So said before
So said before, so said again. Not often in my column do I have reprints of articles that have…
Change is needed
As I sit here prettily poised with nimble fingers gently tapping my computer keyboard, the digital…
Befuddled
I’m not sure if befuddled is a word or not, but my spell check doesn’t reject it, so…
Christmas 2010
Fall has slipped quietly away, winter has come and Christmas is on our doorstep. I one time…
Genetically modified foods
Genetically modified foods of any kind, whether they be plant or animal, scare the life right out…
L-A-Z-Y II
Those crazy, hazy, lazy days of summer are slipping rapidly past. I don’t feel lazy; the fact…
Peacocks
“Once I went a pickin’ peas, I thought I heard a peacock sneeze. He sneezed so hard…
March update
This is a rather sad and disappointing month for me, as it is the first, I believe, in at least ten…