My Morgan,my granddaughter will be twelve in September. Holy Cow ! What does she want ? Her own phone. Well, being my little princess I immediately went to the internet and checked it out. Yup, they still make the princess… Continue reading

I grew up on Long Island. East Hampton to be exact. The area of town I lived in was called nor’west. Down to nor’west woods in the local vernacular. I played in those woods and became quite familiar with them.… Continue reading

As many of you reading this posting already know I love my perked coffee in the morning. The mixture of taste,aroma and nostalgia is indeed a pleasant sensory experience. It is more work and requires patience as well, but worth… Continue reading

Grandmother Bennett was an immigrant. Sent to this country to care for a sick aunt. Whether she had the desire to leave her own land or not is not known to me. I do know she came here unable to… Continue reading

One of the more difficult tasks we have in life is to do what is right. To do right repeatedly, without acknowledgement, is even harder. The act of doing what we know to be right should be enough to satisfy… Continue reading

Abraham Lincoln famously said, ” folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be, ” It is hard to argue with that logic. Old Abe probably didn’t make that thought up, just put it in… Continue reading

At what point would focus become obsession ? Is it when the focus of your attention is concentrated to the exclusion of everything else ? That would seem easy enough to understand and recognize. Conversely what is the point where… Continue reading

I went to orientation at the middle school last evening. I had been before, with Mark, but it was Morgans turn. It was all pretty much the same .We met the teachers and listened to the principle speak. The principle… Continue reading

Mental health specialists, what we called shrinks not so many years ago, speak of conditioned emotional responses. These conditioned responses occur individually, as well as in entire populations. I had read a short article about this. The theory is that… Continue reading

Yesterday, as I writing about the kids and going back to school I wandered into the kitchen, not physically but figuratively. I mentioned the time we had spent baking cupcakes and cookies. As often happens when I write my stories… Continue reading