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Just a little night shopping…

Okay, I have a problem…when I can’t sleep, I check out Amazon and add things to my cart. Usually, they are items I saw as a Facebook or Pinterest ad, but have learned from experience not to order directly from those links. Sometimes, I get...

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Saturday Story: The Rag Collector’s Daughter

Today’s Saturday Story was inspired by a true story of something that happened to my grandmother as a young girl. Dorothy the horse truly did exist. Enjoy! The Rag Collector’s Daughter Boys and girls of all ages ran down the school corridor. Jules took her time...

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Saturday Story: Moon at Dusk pt 1

Strawberry Crunch Cake

I love those ice creams I used to get as a kid that had the chocolate or strawberry crunch toppings on them. I am also a huge fan of the chocolate crunchies in ice cream cakes. It reminds me of summer and good times. So...

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Letting Down My Hair

    There was a librarian who walked into a bar…To be more accurate it was a pool hall. No this is not a bad joke, its a true story. I had just joined my husband for our weekly nine-ball league (Librarians do have a life outside...

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This is Sjögren’s…

April is Sjögren’s Syndrome Awareness month. This is the autoimmune disorder that has caused so many complications for my husband…including the last couple of months of surgeries and hospital stays he had. He had a total of five surgeries between Christmas and the end of...

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24 Products to Celebrate Earth Day!

This is fine…dealing with stress

No-Bake Cannoli Cheesecake

Being Italian and from Jersey, I love cannoli, but here in Southern Maryland, it is hard for me to find really good cannoli. We have a bakery around the corner, but theirs tastes more like buttercream to me. Maybe there is a difference between Belgium...

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My HelloFresh Review

The Idea Process

My son recently had to come up with a topic for a coding project for school. He likes to just jump right in, but the teacher is requiring them to journal each day on what they did for the project…which means no throwing the code...

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What I Read:Winter Edition

Thoughts on Creativity…

The obvious answer to who is creative would be artists. Creativity seems to go hand in hand with art, music, and drama. However, creativity is more than simply being artistic or musically inclined. To be creative means that one has the ability to look beyond...

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A Lesson from Option B

What a year!