How Convenient

How convenient it is for us to have convenience stores, right? They offer you quick snacks, hot beverages on a cold night and short walks to get those things you need like milk, bread and eggs or sandwiches, snacks and Read More …

It Is Too Late for Pumpkin

So, since we have just flipped 40 degrees in the opposite direction of where the winter was heading, I am wondering and this is a serious question. It is too late for pumpkin….stuff, right? When I was the coffee buyer, Read More …

Starting Again

So many things have new beginnings, new school – kindergarten, middle school, high school, college, new job, work…marriage, having children, raising them and then sending them off – always starting again and again. We have been talking to friends and Read More …

Convenience

It is nearly, nearly always true that you pay more for convenience…In general – this is the market acting and working as it should. Things that are available to you where you want them, the moment you want them and Read More …

Let Me Count The Ways

It is mid-summer and part of the summer reading has been completed. Poetry and the classics are often on the list.  I have always liked the sonnet “How Do I Love Thee?” Never one to be misunderstood in her romantic Read More …

No, But…

It is totally fine to say no, but much better to just say yes first. Sometimes however, there is a negative before the positive.  As in, the answer we received to our posed inquiry, “does that come with whipped cream?”  Read More …

Waiting Makes Things Better

Sometimes, waiting makes things better… Ok – mind out of the gutter people. This is a clean blog. (At least for now.) What I mean is… Waiting until you open your birthday or Christmas present – no one can be Read More …