Ditto this, too, and ditto everything everyone else said here. Wow! This is stunning. The sadness we carry with us til the Last Battle of our own!

Ohh, ditto that! I too don't recall news of your mom passing during Covid. Oh the sadness! A stepmother who gives a son up for adoption - and years pass before a sister finds him - really???? WHO DOES

Ooooh, do we get a glimpse of the Lake House here? Love it! Love the arbor - but is it really BUCKTHORN branches forming it? Buckthorn, I swear, is worse than that black walnut, black walnuts - treachery

I loved Nicholas Cage in "Moonstruck," but he has been overused since then, and he was grievously miscast as the vigilante police officer the movie "Vengeance," based on the Joyce Carol

You're welcome! The barefoot chapter, the recipes, the organic farm-raised food, the NO DOCTORS, the weird home remedies for warts - and the outhouse! - it's all memorable and relatable. I quit the ghost

Old joke, but a good one - it's made the rounds for years. You give it a fresh twist with the rhyme and rhythm - well done! Ten dollars is ten dollars!

How young are you??? Too young to remember a box of Cracker Jacks - back when the prizes were good - now, if you can even find a box, it's really tiny, and the prize is a lousy sticker. @Owasco, you never

All your posts are packed so full of photos and information - how do I even begin to respond? LOVE IT, all of it. And your son - watch out! - he will be getting more attention than he wants from admirers.

All good, as always. This one really hits home love is the answer to a great many questions few are asking

YES. Plastic. Tupperware. Packaged and processed, refrigerated food, trucked to us from all over the country, grapes from Chile and Argentina going to the Midwest, even though grapes grow in the US. Most

I just want to see Bobby Kennedy Jr stay alive and get appointed Surgeon General, if not some higher office....

Oh beautiful, poignant, so tautly rendered. I picture an urn, or some ashes, close by: I pass you daily with my dogs, master myself now, and wonder if you are still water worthy or well. If you are water

YES, yes, we want to know more! Mom has died, I presume, and Dad, who vowed never to wear the cap she crocheted for him, is now wearing it. And he's snipping green beans (I job I detest) - but I've never

The man in the chair - what a fascinating start to a story nobody seems to know! It was not sandflies (no-see-ums) that got me in Rhode Island - it was some creepy crawly little things and I thought someone

Ohhhh, I'm so sorry to hear this. Four years without seeing two of your children is a long time. Friends and family leaving for a new world, one that does not welcome them. And this: Host countries end

Sandfleas! From what I recall, they BITE. (I was in Rhode Island at the time.) Why would anyone collect sandfleas? Some kind of fish bait....? Interesting - the man in the folding chair in the parking

Have you lost a loved one recently? I hope this poem refers to a long-ago loss. I feel the pain! ("Emotional Agony") "Beyond this madness, still I hear your voice" - And we hope to

I love it - the antidote is to get observers drunk. For years (starting at age 30!!) I have said this: as we married folk age, the quick and easy solution is to take off our glasses and dim the lights.

ahh, but this neighbor for all her weight training still has that hazard of aging: crepe-y skin! Not sure there's any antidote to that. Herbal remedies, maybe....?

are you in the #electroculture group, electro-gardening, whatever it's called? Amazing how people show photos of bigger, better plants and veggies, just fashioning some coils or pyramids to utilize electrical