If my little mom were here, she would say that this weather was raw – in other words, damp and cold and windy. There’s sun now after a weekend of rain, but despite my barn coat & rain mocs (thank you, Famous East Coast Retailer) and a scarf and several layers, the damp got into […]

“He whom you have loved and lost is no longer where he was before. He is now wherever you are.” – St John Chrysostom  10/11/66-11/21/01

Tonight I think I have found the names of some cousins that my great-grandmother visited in Trenton on a trip from Philadelphia in 1912. Now, this bit of news may not interest you at all, but this branch of my family is veeeeery intriguing. They have, or had, a habit of, um…blurring or obscuring some notable […]

After the election, there was a spike in hits to my site, all from FB. I got rid of that link. To be frank, I’m an ordinary middle middle middle lady, but the sudden flood of clicks made me uneasy.  I watch these things. The stats are barebones and don’t tell me much, but I […]

So I have a friend who got Botox only it wasn’t that but another thing very similar, and the friend has mixed feelings. I don’t have a real objection; each of us has to live with a face as it stretches and grows and evolves and sags, and of course other people have to live […]

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