It shades me from the sun and allows me to sit out here with the laptop during the day, getting off my desk so I don’t feel all trapped and stuck in the same place, day after day, hour after hour. It gives me a place to sit, like tonight, in candlelight with a glass of wine and type away.

So Rayne asked about my camera today and Laurel commented on some review pics taken with it so I figured I’d post an update. I do like the camera, quite a bit.  It’s still giving me some grief with focusing but I’m figuring my way around it.  If I had it to do over again?  [...]

I have nothing worthwhile to say today.  I’m tired. Worn out.  Sunburned to the lobster point. Quite spacey. Dehydrated a bit.  Achy.  Unfit company for intelligent human beings. I’ll share some pics, though This is Lake Michigan. We rode along the lake for a bit yesterday on our 5 hour bike ride.

“The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. ” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Fall is coming.  Can you smell it?  I almost can. It sneaks [...]

The six year anniversary of Taylor and I meeting for the first time is coming up pretty soon. Early in February, actually. We’d known each other years and years online but rarely talked. He used to tell me “one of these days, sin”. (That was my screen name back then. Submissively_sinful. Most people called me [...]

When I stand on my balcony I can look out and see the twinkling lights of downtown Milwaukee. I can see miles and miles of trees and the homes tucked in amongst them. I can look down and see my flower beds, the little stream trickling into our pond and the pond itself. I can [...]

I’ve seen this numerous places on the web lately – blogs and websites and quote sites. Despite it’s wide availability, it’s definitely worthy of a repost. Powerful stuff, this… Phenomenal Woman Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think [...]

“For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest, that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe….” ~H.L. MenckenIf I haven’t said it enough lately…I have some really, really great friends.I”ve been wary, for a long time, of creating actual friendships.I lost all mine in my [...]