I know there are certain things I’m not rational about and one of them is my husband playing baseball. It all started when we were dating. He was playing baseball after work. I was spending quality time with my two young sons after work.  I never got to see him play baseball.  After we got married, Continue reading

Are you a risk taker? A risk taker is defined as someone who is bold, decisive, confident, courageous, creative, innovative and comfortable with uncertainty. I don’t know if I am a risk taker. I think I am more likely to be defined as someone who doesn’t think things through thoroughly, leaps before she ponders and does what Continue reading

Like most of my friends and family members, I do a lot less shopping in person and a lot more ordering stuff online these days. Amazon is my go-to. I simply ADORE the “free shipping.” Of course, dabbling on and off in handcrafted items myself, I am also a big fan of ETSY. There “free Continue reading

I never cried the entire time I was in Poland.I expected to, but I didn’t.   My tears didn’t start until we landed back in the States – after checking into a sterile Marriott Hotel room sandwiched between other non-descript hotels and the JFK airport.  I realized I was over tired. I realized I was sick with Continue reading

My brother-in-law worked for Smithfield Foods and spent his entire career while there traveling back and forth to Poland – working with the livestock farmers to increase production of pigs. It was his dream to take my husband and I, his wife (my sister) and two close couple friends back to Poland after his retirement. Continue reading

My mind is still trying to process all that I have seen,while my body’s fighting-off a killer sinus infection that is making me miserable and mean As you read this, I am heading home from Poland to decompress, rest and renew and next week I’ll be writing about the experiences I’ve witnessed and been through  Majestic churches and lushly green parks An Continue reading

Well, if you are reading this column at 3pm on Friday, a mere few hours ago I landed in Warsaw, Poland after flying over the ocean all night – and hopefully sleeping while doing so. Travel, obviously, has been on my mind. This week’s column is devoted to travel tidbits both amusing and profound. When Continue reading

Over the 38 years that I have been penning and publishing my weekly column, I have written a plethora of Mother’s Day messages. Many centered on the travails of raising five feisty, highly energetic and divergent-thinking sons – who came up with more ways to hide beer in the back yard bushes than I would Continue reading

In the morning, I found out I needed about $4500 worth of dental work. That knocked out my expansive plans for new shrubs and plantings adjacent to my back yard screened porch. I blinked away my hot tears.  Shortly thereafter, I spent approximately 68 minutes surfing the Internet trying to add my TSA number to Continue reading

I forget my granddaughter’s birthday – not because I didn’t write it down – but because I forgot to look at my list of “Special Days.” I’m at the grocery store and can’t remember if I have an in unopened bottle of French Vanilla Coffee mate at home so I buy more. Word recall? Routinely Continue reading