For someone who has pretty much retired from cooking, I get an urge once in a blue moon to come out of retirement and make something tasty. Okay, to be honest, I never was much of a cook and I never especially liked doing it, so you can understand why, after years of feeding seven […]
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I had a fun travel companion last week named Flat Stanley. I had never heard of Flat Stanley but it turns out he’s quite famous. He’s had his picture taken with such well-known celebrities as Clint Eastwood and President Obama, to name just two. Now he’s had his picture taken with Seamus, Louis Kossuth, and […]
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There are many things I love about computers and cyberspace. F’rinstance, being able to FaceTime or Zoom with our scattered kids and grands is wonderful. Out of the blue, 6-year-old Molly will get loose on her Dad’s cell phone and FaceTime me, offering to give me a tour of her house. She always offers to […]
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Seamus has come into my life – Hurrah! My house is no longer silent and empty of a welcoming dog – I now have Seamus to be my new love. I found him on the Petfinder website and immediately fell for him. He was living in a shelter in Clear Lake, having been transported there […]
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When I returned to writing an Inkspots column five years ago, after quite a long hiatus, it was for two reasons: I felt if I could make a few people smile, or even chuckle, that would help justify my taking up space on this planet; Bing had just died and I needed to fill my […]
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I had a wrestling match last week with something called Flex Tape. I lost. Furthermore, I also lost three pairs of scissors and my temper. Flex Tape is the devil’s invention. It all started with a leaky birdbath. Last year, I managed to repair the leaks with some kind of caulking. It held all summer […]
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I’ve written before about how much I loved to walk to, and through, Riverview Cemetery from our house. Those walks ended abruptly when a patch of ice rudely sneaked under my foot, causing me to land in a snowdrift, staring at the sky. I adjourned to St. Cecelia Church then for my walks. It is lovely there, […]
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What’s in a name? Well, a lot, as it turns out. One of the fun things about my gig of volunteering to rock (and change and feed) babies at Bear Care, the daycare center at Seton School, is being exposed to what today’s parents are naming their children. There’s not a single Tom or John […]
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There’s a line from a song that lately has been running through my mind: “Time has a way of making hometowns disappear….” I’ve seen this be true of towns, but I know nothing will ever make my home disappear. I’m writing this from the comfort of the house that has been my home since I […]
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Dolls at the Historical Society I loaned my children to the Historical Society a couple of weeks ago. But don’t worry – I brought them home last week. The children, Margaret Ann, Jeannie, Me and Mimi, and Sister, survived nicely without me for the week they were on display in the museum. They were propped […]
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