Alice Gerard

I have enjoyed participating in this month’s Ultimate Blogging Challenge. I feel as if I have  benefited from the practice of blogging every day. At first, my opinion was that it would be hard for me to come up with ideas for each day’s post, even though prompts come with each day’s emails. Well, that

Today’s blogging prompt is all about talking about the theme song for my blog. I have to admit that my theme song changes constantly, depending on my musical tastes at the moment. Today, my musical tastes are all about a sense of wanderlust competing with an urge to stay in a familiar place. They are

Today’s blogging prompt is to write a top ten list. So that got me to thinking about its connection that that bucket list that I wrote a few days ago, on the nineteenth of January. Here is the link to that blog post, which was titled “Items from Alice’s Bucket List.” After the fact, I realized that

If you ever decide to run a trivia contest, here are a few fun facts about presidents throughout history that you could add under the category “presidential trivia.” The youngest person ever to be inaugurated as president was Theodore Roosevelt, at the age of 42 years, 322 days. The oldest person to be inaugurated as

Today’s blogging post was to compare two things that don’t seem to have any relationship with each other. Sort of like mice and the Loch Ness monster or cat food and a pencil. Or maybe a mezzo soprano and a hockey puck. Years ago, I went to see a vocational counselor, in the hope that

The fun contest is over, but, after the deadline, I got one more entry, this one from Diane. I did tell Diane that she could be part of the contest, despite the deadline having expired. She wrote a love poem and it’s sweet, so I am awarding her an honorable mention prize and am sharing

Today’s blogging prompt was all about bucket lists. As in share some items from my bucket list. I’ve done this in the past, but my bucket list keeps evolving. Many of the items on this list are unrealistic but the point of a bucket list is to reach for the stars, not the ceiling. And,

Today’s blogging prompt has to do with dreams. It’s about how we dream big when we are children. Our imaginations knew no bounds when we were thinking about what we wanted to be when we grew up. And the question was: if we could dream that big, what would like to become now?  Here are

Last week, my friend Amy and I went to sample the cuisine at Eggsquisite Eats, a new restaurant at 1752 Grand Island Blvd., that serves breakfast and brunch. Amy ordered two pancakes topped with chocolate chips and crispy bacon and was very surprised to receive an enormous plate, covered by two of the largest pancakes

Every now and then, I write about laws that come across as so absurd, it’s amazing that any lawmakers were able to put them on the books without howling with laughter. As the job of a lawmaker doesn’t always include howling with laughter, I can understand why the comic relief would be necessary. But imagine