Driving through the countryside one morning I saw an odd-looking, barn-like structure comprised of slatted wood strips held together with...

Non-human friends fill our lives with joy. We start out with eyes wide open and fully aware that pets don’t live as long as people. ...

If you do nothing else, be sure to document this holiday season. Write down details, feelings, what has happened and what is missing....

Thanksgiving was sure different this year due to the virus and the many restrictions. My husband and I ate alone and the ½ turkey breast...

If you dare, think about the scenes you have been seeing on TV. The overcrowded hospitals with bone-weary and exhausted staff. Switch to...

I began painting at a nearby pumpkin farm over twenty years ago. At first, I was buoyed by the freedom of doing just as I pleased on a...

At school, next to an oral report, getting assigned a long piece of writing gave me hives. This project, often comprising a third of the...

Living a simple life and getting by with fewer things is a new concept. Since retiring from corporate life, clothing has gradually...

Sometimes I make a mental collage of all the friends I've had. I use a plethora of colors, weights and textures of paper with some...

Great ideas come from everywhere, but they need to hit at a receptive moment to make an impact. In an issue of Reader's Digest, I read...

This morning, wanting to beat the heat, we went to a drive-through window at a fast food place. Hubby placed my order, a lemonade with...

What does Independence Day mean to you? Is it the official beginning of summer, fireworks, hot dogs and potato salad? If, like a friend...

For a few years, my high school sorority rented a cottage at Turkey Point, Ontario. While summer is epitomized by the Beach Boy's...

Call it what you will, event, party, festivity there are times when you simply have to gussy up and shine. Going shopping precedes the...

After moving us here from Southern Illinois, daddy was eager to show us the sites. Niagara Falls, of course, was the prime draw, then...

My daily activity of painting at the Riverwalk shows me a whole side of people enjoying unlimited free time, soaking up natural wonders....

Someone once said you never really see a thing until you draw it and that's true for me. Doing a thirty-day watercolor challenge has me...

The house reeked of mustard because Grandma Kelley had been summoned to make a mustard plaster for daddy's pleurisy. This was wrong, my...

Summer arrives like a bang from a starter pistol. One day it's turtlenecks and fleece and the next the lightest cottons constrict and...

For the thirty days of June, for the second year, I am responding to an online invitation: 30X30 Direct Watercolor Challenge. It means...