Alice Gerard

Today is day six of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge, and the suggestion from the challenge’s organizer, Paul Taubman, was to talk about working on the weekend as a writer/blogger. Do I work on the weekend? Or do I prefer to take the weekend off? And why? Because of the nature of my blog, I often […]

One of the most frightening illnesses to watch in another person is dementia. The illness attacks the brain and steals a person’s memory of all things that are meaningful to that person. It renders the person confused, unable to maintain a conversation. It is painful to watch, especially if the person affected is a close

Last month, I participated in a walk from Savannah to King’s Bay, Georgia. The walk was titled the Disarm Trident Peace Walk, and we were walking to bring attention to the King’s Bay Naval Base, the home of Trident II submarines, which can carry up to twelve D5 missiles. Each of these warheads is six

On Saturday, September 29th, I went to Father Earle King’s retirement party. He had been the rector of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church since October 1987. He said, at the party, that, when he accepted the position at St. Martin’s, he believed that he would be the church’s rector six years, eight years at the most.

Today, I’m starting on a new Ultimate Blogging Challenge. This blogging challenge is held four times a year: January, April, July, and October. The goal is for bloggers to post daily for the challenge months.  Today’s post is about the month’s theme, which is change. Change of seasons and retirement are two of the changes that

Butterflies are amazing insects. My sister Diane and I had the chance to see many of them in a butterfly exhibit at the Erie County Fair. Butterflies exist everywhere in the world, except for Antarctica. Here are some interesting facts about butterflies: they are insects they have their taste receptors on their feet they go

Some of the gardens that I visited in Buffalo had statues and fountains as elements. These statues and fountains created atmosphere. They gave the gardens a story. They made the garden feel like a secret and private place.  In the midst of busy-ness, there was a quiet sanctuary. The garden, no matter how large or

On Sunday, July 29th, I had the opportunity to visit a great variety of gardens in Buffalo, during the annual garden walk. The garden walk is always held during the last weekend in July, and this year’s version was the 24th annual garden walk in the City of Buffalo. monarch butterfly. I will share photographs

As Jude and I were traveling west after the Saturday house party for Nathan McMurray in Murray, New York, we saw this beautiful sunset, so we stopped to take a picture.  Dear Readers: Thank you for your comments. Please keep them up. Also, please keep them on topic. I’ve been having some problems with off-topic

In January, I shared the story and images of Nathan McMurray’s announcement that he was running for the House of Representatives in New York’s 27th district. Here is a link to that post. Running for Congress in a district as large as New York’s 27th means a lot of travel. For me, that has been virtually