Dear Reader, Happy Holidays. Tis the Season to be jolly. I never understood religious holidays. Not being religious. I understand celebrating. I enjoy festive parties and decorating and eating goodies. I just don’t get the idea that if you are not religious you should have to say Merry Christmas. So, I don’t. My husband does. […]
By Lynn McPherson There are so many great things about the holidays. Today I’m going to talk about one of my favourite parts—the food! After conferring with my kids we’ve come up with some of our picks for the holidays. Let’s start with appetizers and finger foods… Our top three choices for Go-To Snacks when […]
by Shari Randall It’s the most wonderful time of the year…and the time of the year when the sound of sniffles and sneezing is as prevalent as carols and silver bells. If you do end up getting sick this winter, I hope it will be with the kind of cold that keeps you home, but […]
Dear Reader, It’s a fool moon and I’m the biggest fool of all. Hope I don’t offend, but, this is an adult poem. I’m spending the ha ha holidays working on my murder mystery, a love story. Hey ya hey ya hey ya hey ya ya. I’m sad, mad, glad, bad. Hey. Happy whatever. The […]
by Sparkle Abbey The holidays are upon us and it’s a crazy busy time of year. It’s also the most wonderful time of the year and for us a time to reflect and be grateful for all the wonderful things in our lives. That doesn’t mean life is perfect. In some cases it can be […]
November 28, 2019 Book Review of River of Love by Aimée Medina Carr, Homebound Publications Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on Oh, I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on […]
By Lynn McPherson With Thanksgiving just days away, it’s time to kick off the holiday season. As I opened up all the boxes with lights and decorations, my festive feelings were thrown into high gear with just one whiff of a gingerbread-scented candle. It was a great reminder of the importance of using all five […]
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a secret project – a Christmas short story called “The Queen of Christmas.” I’m a huge fan of short stories at this busy time of the year. What better to read when there are so many demands on our time but also an increased need to […]
by Sparke Abbey This past year we’ve learned a thing or two about decluttering and downsizing. In this era of minimalism, we don’t need as much “stuff” as we might have once believed. And just as we didn’t want to inherit a menagerie of ceramic owls or metal butterflies from our mothers, our children weren’t […]
Dear Reader, My godparents and my little sister, Lynette’s godparents circa 1959, Southern Colorado Cast of Su Teatro production of 1995 Intro to Chicano History 101 written by Anthony J. Garcia In October1995, I travelled to Sicily, los Azores, the UAE, and the island of Diego Garcia in the middle of the Indian Ocean with […]