When we fall in love forever, we fall in tiny ways until it is overwhelming. Seasonal transitions are just the same. Tiny changes and then it is everything. The leaves slowly turning amber, one edge at a time. Beautiful flowers Read More …
Setting aside the controversy of the threats to the lives of bees, they live in their own little world – rather oblivious to us humans – but, for more reason than one, we need to pay attention to them. As Read More …
Taking great pictures of even the strangest things often make people decide, “I’ll try it.” Or, maybe it is placement, in a photograph, staged as an advertisement that gets us there… Blue (berry) milk Acai Quinoa Mushrooms Pomegranate Cotton Candy Read More …
Honesty, some days I really don’t care what’s for dinner. As long as we eat. Together. As long as there is some kind of vegetable. Any kind. Potatoes count. Ketchup does not. Actually potatoes count, but chopped scallions count more. Read More …
Go on say it, it just sounds better doesn’t it? We use vocabulary words and phrases that mean the same thing but just sound so much better. Manicure or Spa Treatment? Special of the Day or Chef’s Tasting Menu? Seltzer Read More …
What do you think is a fair exchange? trading something of equal value doing something for which you are paid what you both believe it is worth paying $20 for something that has an MSRP of $20 a one-for-one swap, Read More …
A ton of options to follow this phrase, but I will start with a few, you can fill in the rest and let me know. If you could: _______ (would you?) Go back in time and change one event in Read More …
It doesn’t take too much effort to find out who can help you. The effort comes in when you have to actually get them to provide the assistance. Some, easier than others…you pay them directly, or someone pays them because Read More …
Here and there, memories remind us of past events, family and friends – things we have done and things we wish that we could have done. Today, it is poignant and coincidental, that those in and around New York City Read More …
Today, I experienced the bizarre, fairly recent occurrence, of the holiday pre-sale (rather than the post-holiday) close out sale. It’s 7+ weeks from Halloween and yet, the decor shops, the craft stores and mass retailers, have Halloween stuff on sale 40-50% Read More …