May 2021

 Every time I go shopping at my local supermarket (Tops Friendly Markets), I get a chance to win the big prize of $10,000 food and gas stimulus. That’s a whole lot of stimulus! I eagerly open up the “Monopoly” ticket because I just know that it’s going to be my big stimulus package… paper…  A […]

  Today’s Ultimate Blogging Challenge prompt is to review a book or a movie. The book that I am reviewing is a book that I am currently reading, called The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Michele Richardson. This book is set in Kentucky during the mid-1930s. It is the story of Cussy Mary

 Today’s blogging prompt was to write about how you might do things differently than expected. I wondered how the way that I write a blog post might be different than how someone else might write a blog post. I walked to the medical office for my appointment with the nurse practitioner and I kept wondering. How

 After the long monochromatic chill of winter, the colors of spring feel like a sweet dream. Each year, it’s just as delightful as the previous year. The joy never goes away.

Hey folks! Today is a Very Important Holiday. It is… Limerick Day! Which, in my opinion, is a really fun event. This holiday, always occurs on May 12th, which was the birthday of Edward Lear (1812-1888). He published a “Book of Nonsense” in 1846 and he popularized the poetic form known as the Limerick.  By

Today’s blogging prompt is to write about dessert. Or desert. I was actually offered both words. Since I have little experience of deserts, I decided to write about dessert. Which is good because it just happened that I had fresh rhubarb and apples available. I had obtained the rhubarb at the first spring farmers market

 What can ordinary people do to make a huge difference in the world? What if I were to say that this is something that has the potential to help stop climate change while giving a precious gift to future generations? What would you think of that? And what if I said that you didn’t have

  Today’s blogging prompt is to talk about a place that I would like to visit. A place to dream about. A place that belongs on a bucket list. Some place that is beautiful and far away. It’s been two and a half years since I traveled anywhere, and I am feeling the pull of

  Today’s blogging prompt is a question: do you work on the weekends or do you take them off? My answer is this vague… it depends. Freelance journalism is an erratic type of work. Sometimes, I’m busily taking pictures and writing articles about weekend events. Other times, there is nothing at all. This weekend, it’s

 Note: Alice decided to take a day off from posting so she invited a guest poster to take her place. Please welcome Lucy, who is writing her very first blog post. Hi, my name is Lucy, and I am Alice’s foster kitty. I’ve been living with her for almost six weeks, and I have been