Interurban Bridge With the beginning of some warmer weather, it's nice to get out and about.  Last Saturday, we took a little day...

A very good friend is an accountant.  When tax season rolls around, she and her partner and their staff are always swamped with work.  They...

A year passes so quickly.  Here I am, back to blogging after a full year away.  I left on April 1 and thought a return on the same date wo...

“I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don...

Starbucks.  I have to admit, I don't get it.  Not being a coffee drinker, I have no real way to understand the whole phenomenon. ...

Another shawl, ya'll!  I'm on a shawl kick lately.  The Southernism "ya'll" is because I just returned from a vis...

I am back among the living, having come out of the weeds and the zombie state of an imminent deadline.  After a weekend spent celebrating t...

I have not forgotten you, blogging friends.  I have not been posting or reading blogs lately because I am deep in the weeds on a monstro...

I am in love!  In love with this gorgeous yarn, Serenity Garden.  After seeing a fabulous crocheted shawl on Teresa Kasner's blog , (...

I'm joining in the Hey Girl Valentine link party! Hey Girl is a Pinterest meme involving Ryan Gosling.  As a middle-aged woman, I su...

We've finally been getting our winter snow here in northern Illinois.  It's been beautiful. Mourning dove taken from my office w...

When I was a kid, I used to love to look at catalogs -- Sears and J. C. Penney were probably the main ones.  If I could pick any bedspread ...

If you were a young child in the early 1990s or the parent of such a child, you may know the TV show "Lamb Chop's Play-Along,...

Yesterday was a dreary day filled with gray skies and freezing rain.  Fortunately, I had planned for such a day and had all the ingredients...

Brrr!  It's been cold, and Alfie got chilly.  Okay, I just think Alfie got chilly because, after all, he didn't show any signs like...

When I was growing up, my mother would occasionally make meatballs and cabbage.  It was never my favorite dish -- I prefer my cabbage raw -...

Check out my assistant who is "helping" me complete the never-ending sampler blanket. If I stare at you long enough, will yo...

After a couple of days of unseasonably warm weather, winter is back in northern Illinois.  We've had almost no snow this winter, but it...