Midlife Musings, Midriff Expansion (weight gain), Chronicles of Midlife Coming of Age and a few other things
I’m not one for the macabre or ghoulishness, never have been. My kids have always had hand-made costumes: horse, cow, southern belle, cell phone, giant baseball glove. I always have candy for trick or treaters. About a decade ago, I was moved to fill my yard with paper bag luminarias on Halloween night. I’ve done [...]
December Harvest
This past June (which now seems eons away) I was awarded my choice of a free 4” container plant along with my grocery purchase at Waukesha’s natural and whole foods store “Good Harvest”. I chose a tomato plant over a flowering plant. I fully intended that this would be the year that I would [...]
We lost one of our own. My brother, Timmy(top left), 52 years old, collapsed and died of a heart attack, catching us all by surprise. That was last Wednesday, December 3rd. It seems incomprehensible that it has been over a week now. One of the things that always gets to me in the midst of [...]
Some years back, a different element entwined itself into our Trick or Treat offerings. I was moved to add rows of luminarias around the yard and along the brick ledge on the front of our house – not the metal or ceramic luminarias you can buy – but the “made from scratch” kind, using [...]