Alice Gerard

C is for cookie. Yummy, delicious cookies made by Ellen DeNormand, who formerly owned the bakery, “Momma De’s.” It was a fun place where you could get cookies and cupcakes and all sorts of sweet treats. And not only that, you could get a culinary education. Ellen offered workshops in decorating cookies and cakes. Of […]

Breathe in Breathe out Breathe free Breathe life More than a year after shut down began, the world has changed in ways that I find confusing and that I have not yet begun to process. It gets overwhelming at times and that’s when I need to focus on my breathing. Breathe in breathe out Breathe

  Yesterday, I saw this outside. I was so excited to see something alive and yellow. I had to go take a picture of it at once. So I did! There wasn’t a moment to lose. Today, I saw something different! It was… snow.  What kind of April fool’s day trick is that? Okay, I

  A year ago, I was thinking about corned beef and cabbage and I was wondering what “shut down” meant and about how long it would last. I was thinking that it would last a few weeks and then, it would end. I believed that I was going to greet Easter at church, and life

Today’s blog post is all about Alice’s adventure on February 26th, 2021. I was going to write and post this yesterday, but discovered that exhaustion took over and my brain wasn’t going there.  Yesterday morning, I could already sense that the day was going to be challenging. My head was achey and I felt the

  This is actually my second blog post of the day! It must be some sort of record for me. I don’t know if blog posting is a contest or not. Uh, but I digress.  Anyway… back on topic. Which is really cool blogs. So, without further ado, I will introduce the cool blogs for

  So….. I was going to post the winner of the name the bear contest on February 17th, but time has this wonderful or maybe awful way of escaping from me. Well, so it’s February 25th. The bear was making a speech about STILL not having a name. “That’s not nice,” said the Anonymous Bear.

 It’s #wordlessWednesday! Here is a collection of pictures that I took today at Kelly’s Country Store in Grand Island, New York, where the Easter rooms are open. Enjoy!

 Today’s blogging prompt was to make a list. Various ideas were suggested, and one of them was “ten random things about me.” So here goes. Ten random things about Alice, in no particular order! –Alice loves sunflowers. Madly. She has painted portraits of many sunflowers and she has all sorts of stuff with a sunflower