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Friday Night
What do you think about on the drive home? (What can I make for dinner out of what’s left in the ‘fridge?) How do you get comfortable? (I take off my corset as soon as possible!) Do you eat first...
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Team Spirit
The world is gearing up for another Olympic Games. National pride, sportsmanship, individual performance, athleticism, courage, and victory will be concepts that will get much press in the near...
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Deflating *POP* Culture
How does anyone keep up with Pop Culture? I used to watch the Olympics; now I don’t have a TV, so I’m not even going to attempt to know who is making the sports news. I’m also not attempting to keep...
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We Are All Connected
After being on the road for 10 days, Steve & I returned to our home in Wisconsin for a period of re-assessment and research. When Steve logged onto the internet, the local news reported a shocking...
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Generating an Odyssey…Trip Phase 3
After camping for 2 nights at Mammoth Cave, we headed east toward the Daniel Boone National Forest. We stopped at a public library to use the internet to get directions to a campsite, and were pleased...
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Hiking in Hunting Season
It was a quiet Sunday along the Ice Age Trail…until the Packer’s football game ended. “Blaze orange” jackets and shotgun blasts began to add noise mid-afternoon. Steve and I are both creeped out by...
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Peace on Earth
Yesterday was a very sad day for me. I was following up on a news article I read a few weeks ago about indigenous Americans purchasing sacred land in the Black Hills. I was happy that they had raised...
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Oh! The Humanity!
Internet news gives me a stomach ache. I just feel sick after browsing through photos and videos and stories about cruelty, stupidity, fear, and all kinds of petty, human activity. I really...
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Mensch sighting!
In my post a few days ago, (Oh! The Humanity!) I sent out a plea for examples of admirable human beings as an antidote to the kind of internet sensations who fail to inspire and instead make me...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Home
Home. A weighty concept in some ways, but also tending toward the sentimental. It can connote fortification, shelter….and yet, homey can be quaint and trivial. We invent and reinvent our...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Family
This photo challenge is one of those too-easy ones. What photographer doesn’t have a picture of his/her family? So, how do I do it uniquely? Well, the simple answer is that every family is unique, so...
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Media and Mania
My laptop perches on my warmly-wrapped lap. Sunshine covers the foot of the bed. Outside my window, sparrows twitter in the snow-dusted branches. Steve and I tap our separate keyboards, sending muffled...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Signs
Some signs are meant to be helpful, but come across as completely confusing. Like this one in the Milwaukee airport, just past the security checkpoint. It took me a while to think through this one....
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Farming a Dancing Landscape
Some Thoughts on Poverty – Spiritual Lessons from Nature Series This article appears in this month’s issue of The BeZine. To read the entire issue, click HERE. Raising a child is not rocket science....
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Think Continually of Those At Risk
I wrote this article for The Be Zine whose November issue was dedicated to “At-Risk Youth”. Under the light of the half moon, David Attenborough speaks to the camera on Christmas Island, surrounded by...
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Happy Centennial + 8, Girl Scouts of America!
On March 12, 1912, Juliette Low founded the Girl Scouts of America with a troop of 18 girls in Savannah, Georgia. I became a Brownie Girl Scout on Jan. 21, 1970. My mother was already a leader with...
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Distance
“God is watching us…from a distance.” ― Julie Gold Tina is our host for this week’s photo challenge, and she takes up an appropriate theme: Distance, using quotes from a song by Julie Gold. Tina...
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Old and New
Newton B. Drury, National Park Service Director, 1940-1951: “The American way of life consists of something that goes greatly beyond the mere obtaining of necessities of existence. If it means...
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Found in the Neighborhood
“It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine? It’s a neighborly day in this beauty wood, A neighborly day for a beauty, Would you be...
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