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 Today is Superbowl Sunday. How about something super… souper for dinner? Because soup on a cold evening when you’re going to be busy watching a football game is just a good idea. A nice creamy soup that warms your insides is an even better idea. The nice creamy soup that I decided to make was […]

  Just a few days ago, I was in my living room that I had turned into a private gym, gasping for air as I attempted to push my body in ways that it was reluctant to be pushed. I was stubbornly engaged in the activities, not accepting the ferocious resistance message that my body

 Today’s blogging challenge has to do with offering advice. Usually, I am reluctant to offer advice, even if people ask for it. That is because the things that work for me may not work as well for someone else. And who likes bad advice? Nevertheless, I’m going to offer this piece of advice. If it

  Today’s blogging prompt was all about the number four. I guess because it’s the fourth of the month. So the creative project that I am demonstrating today had to be something that involved the number four. How was I to do that? How about if I used just four different colors of paint for

  Today’s prompt from Paul Taubman at the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to write about someone I know and what I admire about that person. He suggests a friend, a family member or a colleague as the person to talk about. The person whom I’ve chosen is my friend, Giselle Jackman. I first met Giselle

 Today’s blogging prompt continues the idea of me introducing myself to you with the question, “How did I get started in my niche?” Well, actually, I don’t really know. It just sort of happened over time.  Years ago, when I was just getting started in my flip floppy (mostly floppy) journalism career, I realized that

 Today is the start of a new Ultimate Blogging Challenge. I have participated in this blogging challenge since 2015. Or was it 2014? Anyway, it’s been a while. Through this challenge, I’ve become part of a great community of bloggers. I’ve had the opportunity to improve my writing skills, as well as my photography skills.

 What do you photograph when you don’t really go anywhere? When you don’t have big photogenic adventures? When you’re not exploring all sorts of different places? Well, what about you as a photography subject? You could photograph yourself! The technology today makes that easy. And that’s what I chose to do. Photograph myself in a

Just when I was celebrating the end of The Year from Hell (aka 2020), it became apparent that the madness had not ended. I could say that I had decided to do a 365 day photography challenge in 2021 because the madness had not ended. But no. That’s not really true. Actually, I was hiking

 “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” ~Dylan Thomas Two days ago, my mother, Roslyn Gerard, passed away quietly in a nursing home at the age of 99. For the last several years of her life, she suffered from the