I love your family! Just as I love Bruni (RIP) and Niko (RIP) and Stacey, and her Aunt Jane, and.... All these people I've not met in real life. Today, for the second Monday in a row, I watched a live

I thought so!!! I just couldn't remember which story or how long ago. :)

If powdered eggs worked, what a shame they had to switch eggs out of the mix in order to get past some mental block among the cake mix "cheats" - but that is a whole other kettle of fish. I'm

If that's you in the photo, I see where your son got his good looks! Love the poem. Tough it out. Love can't be taught. Love is being there through thick and thin. Dip that stick in some honey and spread

Roseland Ballroom - @owasco, did you blog about this place, some years ago? Somebody, somewhere, must have; but I can't pinpoint the source of the de ja vous. Love the writeup, @myjob, and man, that son

Somewhere (and I cannot find it again now), I read that cutting the tree in half will do the trick. Might have to repeat. I've dug out the seedlings (pull pull pull all the roots), and just cut the

Ah, to suffer ourselves - the burden of being myself - I who try not to inflict myself on the society of others must endure my own society. Your opening line really speaks to me. Maybe you didn't intend

Oh how sad - outnumbered, out-voted, and watching Mom go to a bad place. I just cannot even imagine. I have one sister left. One. And she isn't speaking to me. (I'm not even sure why.) Grief does weird

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