My husband, Michael, and I have seen some awe-inspiring nature scenes in our travels around this vast country of ours…snow-covered mountains, lush green valleys, lofty cliffs overlooking the wide ocean, thundering waterfalls, wide-open-stretch-for-miles desert...
Here’s a Do-it-Yourself Project that anyone can make. I promise. All you need is an empty jar, some paper and an ink pen or pencil. Easy peasy! You can use any kind of a jar (wide mouth preferred) an old canning jar, an empty pickle jar, or even a pretty flower vase...
Sometimes when you give, expecting nothing in return, you receive a surprise. That’s what happened to me one holiday season. My two boys were just toddlers, and I (feeling guilty about cutting down trees for Christmas) had decided the year before, the only right...
I read something today that made me sad. A young person I know quite well, posted a long list of elaborate reasons why he wouldn’t consider creating an online game right now, even though he has ideas and would like to. His reasons included the fact that “any idiot...
My husband and I recently spent 12 days on a 3,000-mile road trip from San Diego to the Pacific Northwest and back. Driving through the drought-stricken countryside of California brought home the reality of the water shortages here in this state. What a contrast to...
I’m a planner, a list maker, an organizer with a capital O. It’s not that I am especially talented at being organized. It’s only that I’ve discovered it helps me feel that I have some control in my ADD /OCD world – believing I am creating order out of chaos. Oh...
Being outside in nature is the most basic part of who I am. Besides gaining knowledge about wildlife, I learn lessons about who I am, and surprise myself about what I am capable of achieving. Nature continually inspires me. It is a part of all my writings, no matter the genre or subject matter.
Being outside in nature is the most basic part of who I am. Besides gaining knowledge about wildlife, I learn lessons about who I am, and surprise myself about what I am capable of achieving. Nature continually inspires me. It is a part of all my writings, no matter the genre or subject matter. 
