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 […]

 When you have nowhere to put a garden, you make adjustments. In the case of the Sun Restaurant, 1989 Niagara Street, Buffalo, the issue of lack of garden space was addressed by the use of raised garden boxes.  In the next few weeks, you can look for a review of the Sun Restaurant and its

 Today’s blogging prompt involves the number four in any form… four seasons, four cardinal directions, four suits in a deck of cards, four basic mathematical functions, four elements (earth, wind, air, and fire), and so forth. I thought about things that come in four and decided to talk about the four basic mathematical functions, as

I did get a writing prompt in this morning’s email from Paul Taubman at the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. But for reasons that I can’t share yet, I’m going to put off that topic for about a week or so. You’re probably wondering… reasons that I can’t share yet? Exactly! I am going to make a

  Yesterday evening, I got to have so much fun when I went to Orange Poppy Art Studio on Grand Island  for a creative activity involving two things that I love: art and plants. It is always a delight to go into this studio, a small business run with great joy by its two owners, Bonnie

  I’m a day late for the end of the April A to Z blogging challenge, as there is no such thing as April 31st. But, hey, I finished in typical zig zag style, so it’s all good. I tried to be zealous in my approach to the challenge, to talk about how I have

  During the lockdown, when I couldn’t go anywhere, I still had books to take me to places both near and far and to different times, both in the past and the future. Some of the books, however, kept me grounded in our present times. They kept me focused on issues that face us as

It is hard to believe that one blogging challenge is about to end, and another one is about to start. But the fact that I am on the letter X tells me so. Every year, when I do the Blogging from A to Z challenge, I always scramble to find a word that starts with

 Today, I had the opportunity to get blogging training, in advance of my next blogging challenge, the quarterly  Ultimate Blogging Challenge. That is set to start on the first of May. The person running the training, Paul Taubman, has a website called Digital Maestro, and he is an expert in all things on line, which includes

  I was having a problem coming up with a word for the letter V. In fact, the problem was very vexing. I didn’t have a vision for V so I asked my sister, whose name just happens to be Vivian. She suggested the word “vivacious.” Interestingly enough Vivian and vivacious start with the same