Last year at Christmas we bought a live tree, a short thing standing about three feet tall. It’s a prickly tree with a funky bald spot, probably the result of the burning sunshine and under-watering during one of last summer’s…
MID JANUARY
Category: winter scene
SMALL REMEMBRANCES
With the start of every new year there’s a persistent niggling in the back of my brain about how to get organized. I’m not a disorganized person, quite the contrary, I know where I’ve tucked away everything that I own.…
A NEW SHORT STORY
WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS IN THIS COMING NEW YEAR!! I have a new short story published in Kings River Life Magazine. It’s a dark Christmas Tale titled A VOICE TO REMEMBER. It was first published…
THE CITY THAT KEEPS SMILING
I just read on-line this morning that NYC is the most expensive city to live in on the USA Continent. There is no question about it, things are expensive in this town but somehow folks get by. Last count there were…
I HEAR THE OCEAN ROAR
I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for winter to be over!! It feels like it’s been a never ending season this year. And though we’ve had some nice days here in NYC, the cold and wind seem to…
WINTER WALK IN THE PARK
Our grandson, Devon, was staying the weekend and that meant we awakened early each morning, usually before the sun comes up. I’m a light sleeper and when I hear the padding of his ever growing feet coming down the hall,…
2013 NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN’S ORCHID SHOW
I don’t go every year. It’s not that I don’t like orchids, there always seems to be so much going on in my life when the show is scheduled. But I try to make the New York Botanical Garden’s Orchid…
DEAD OF WINTER AFTERNOON RETREAT
When you look out the window in the middle of winter and see a bright sun shine, the sky a deep blue, don’t be fooled, it could still be mighty cold out there. That’s how it was the other day…
Happy Lunar New Year and a Snow Storm
Last night the east coast, from New Jersey all the way up and into Canada, got a winter blast of snow. NYC only got about 5 inches of the white stuff, but farther north they got quite a bit more…
IT’S BLUSTERY IN NYC TODAY
Those who live in the NYC area already know this, but it is windy, windy today!! I bought a small live Christmas tree this year, deciding to keep the major holiday decorations out on the terrace, and now that little…