Dept. of Nance

S igh. I know I'm almost cheating with this one. But G is proving to be a toughie for some reason, the greatest being that I am in a...

T oday brought the news of Harper Lee's death. She died peacefully in her sleep, said her family, at the age of 89. I sighed deeply an...

A s a girl, when I would get scared, and I mean really, truly terrified, an equally frightening response occurred. Rather than be able to...

H ere's a short list of a few things which tax my Endurance. They require that I Soldier On gamely and mightily, often times with mo...

A pproximately eleventy years ago I heard a Doctor on tv or radio say something that both amazed and impressed me, and it has stayed with ...

W hen my sister Patti's kids were little, our parents were their babysitters. Mom and Dad hung out over there and got the older kids on...

M uch like Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird , I feel like I was reading since I was born . I went to kindergarten already reading well ...

I n 2016 I'm going to try to Write More Often, and to that end, several things have occurred. One of those Things is that Rick got me...

G oodbye, 2015. You were a Year Of Many Lessons. Some of your Lessons, I enjoyed (driving and docking the boat, making fish tacos, the ...

W elcome, Christmas, bring your cheer.  Cheer to all Whos far and near.  Christmas Day is in our grasp,  so long as we have hands ...

T he Dept . is back, and with a new Feature, Ask A Large Cat. Without any Further Ado, here is Piper, resident Large Cat, to answer you...

A few things are making me Grumpy lately. My hope is that venting them here will settle me down. Then, if any of you seem a little Grumpy ...

"O h, come on!" I grumbled aloud, "I was outside for five minutes." It was, of course, during those five minutes with...

afrodivaz.blogspot.com R ick and I were out driving one late afternoon, and I was taking some time to enjoy the last of the Fall Foliage...

Barry Blitt via The New Yorker ...T he Politics are harshing my Zen. Normally, I would not post any irreverent image of President L...

I t would seem that I had been taking a sort of Inadvertent Sabbatical. I want to write, yet I feel sludgy and stumped--the worst sort ...

P erhaps you're looking to spruce things up a bit At Home. Or, now that Autumn is here, you are feeling that Nesting Instinct--the d...

I t was one of those rare times when I was zipping along on Rt. 58, driving admittedly well above the speed limit and with no one ahead of m...

N o matter where you live, I know you've all seen them. Even if you haven't seen one in actuality, you've at least seen them ...

I 'm not sure if this is true or not, but I feel as if I watch far less television than I used to. Not only fewer hours of television, ...