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Greetings from the beautiful Berkshires in western Massachusetts. We are ensconced at Peppermint Park, half an hour from civilization (re...

pas·to·rale/ˌpastəˈräl,ˌpastəˈral/ noun noun: pastorale; plural noun: pastorales; plural noun: pastorali MUSIC a slow instrumental compos...

As you know, we are hunkering, waiting out the virus, a few miles outside Floyd, Virginia. We will be in this campground until mid-June, w...

EASTER SUNDAY, HARRISONBURG, VA "It never rains, but it pours." Yes, another of my mother's oft-used expressions, but like most clichés, ...

Thursday, April 10 "Think of a cow in a green pasture," my mother would always say when we were stressed. Today, her words came back to m...

Wow, how life has changed. A couple of weeks ago, we came back to the DC area so I could have shoulder replacement surgery. My sister (Go...

As we drove north toward Philadelphia the other day, descending out of the Virginia highlands, I found myself thinking about the beauty o...

Our second stop in Texas was Waco, to visit The Silos, the downtown multi-use destination owned by Chip and Joanna Gaines and made famous...

How could I have left Austin and not talked about two of the most remarkable places we visited?! Goodness ... Well, before we head to Wac...

We just finished a whirlwind tour of Austin, Waco and Grapevine, Texas, just outside Dallas. Stops in Austin and Dallas were primarily to...

There is much to love about New Orleans. There is the juxtaposition of old and new, antique iron lace, stucco and brick against a backgro...

After four days of driving (we try to limit drive time to four hours a day out of deference to the cats and old joints), we are in Florid...

"But where will the kids come for Christmas?" my sister asked me. We were still working toward moving into the camper full time, and we h...

Why does it always feel colder when it rains? We woke up to a hovering gray sky, and shortly after we walked the dogs, it started to rain...

Before our house of 25 years ever made it to market, we had an offer from a young Air Force officer and his wife (we're calling them Jack...

I have sadly neglected this blog for the last year, while we worked on the camper and the house and moving our lives into storage and oh ...

I know. I disappeared. For almost a year. But when the contractor shows up and you are desperately trying to stay one step ahead of worke...

One of the first things we wanted to replace in our camper was the trim, the lovely fluted trim, especially the part with the padded blue...

It was 2004. Our newly adopted siblings from Vietnam, 5 and 10, wanted a cat they could cuddle, and our older cats were having none of i...

Hi there. Remember me? I know, it’s been a very long time since I posted a blog, and shame on me. Sometimes, life just gets in the way! ...