If you dare, think about the scenes you have been seeing on TV. The overcrowded hospitals with bone-weary and exhausted staff. Switch to...

I began painting at a nearby pumpkin farm over twenty years ago. At first, I was buoyed by the freedom of doing just as I pleased on a...

At school, next to an oral report, getting assigned a long piece of writing gave me hives. This project, often comprising a third of the...

Living a simple life and getting by with fewer things is a new concept. Since retiring from corporate life, clothing has gradually...

Sometimes I make a mental collage of all the friends I've had. I use a plethora of colors, weights and textures of paper with some...

Great ideas come from everywhere, but they need to hit at a receptive moment to make an impact. In an issue of Reader's Digest, I read...

This morning, wanting to beat the heat, we went to a drive-through window at a fast food place. Hubby placed my order, a lemonade with...

What does Independence Day mean to you? Is it the official beginning of summer, fireworks, hot dogs and potato salad? If, like a friend...

For a few years, my high school sorority rented a cottage at Turkey Point, Ontario. While summer is epitomized by the Beach Boy's...

Call it what you will, event, party, festivity there are times when you simply have to gussy up and shine. Going shopping precedes the...

After moving us here from Southern Illinois, daddy was eager to show us the sites. Niagara Falls, of course, was the prime draw, then...

My daily activity of painting at the Riverwalk shows me a whole side of people enjoying unlimited free time, soaking up natural wonders....

Someone once said you never really see a thing until you draw it and that's true for me. Doing a thirty-day watercolor challenge has me...

The house reeked of mustard because Grandma Kelley had been summoned to make a mustard plaster for daddy's pleurisy. This was wrong, my...

Summer arrives like a bang from a starter pistol. One day it's turtlenecks and fleece and the next the lightest cottons constrict and...

For the thirty days of June, for the second year, I am responding to an online invitation: 30X30 Direct Watercolor Challenge. It means...

Apartments. I've lived in twelve in my lifetime; in Long Island, Rhode Island, Oshkosh, Madison, Wisconsin and two temporary residences...

If you attended public school over the last fifty years, you said it hundreds of times. So much so that standing with hand over heart,...

Home represents security first and foremost and my husband and I are doing everything we can to keep it that way. We go out but, remain...

Today it is only fitting that we honor those who have served in the armed forces. I was too young to know what war meant but, while I...