If you live around this area, you certainly cannot have missed the beautiful full moon that has been present for the last few nights. Thanks to John Stehlin, the meteorologist for WICU television, I learned that this moon is called the “Hunter’s Moon”. It was actually a Super Moon this ...

Last Monday morning was especially blue – but not for the usual gloomy reasons. My routine road trip to Erie for a doctor’s appointment was particularly eye-opening… and captivating. It was ten a.m. as I drove toward Sugar Grove, home to many Amish families. On the way into town, I ...

What perennials need to be replaced? If you have a plant with a dead center that needs to be dug, the center removed and the healthy part of the plant moved. Likewise are there plants that need to be replaced. My Shasta daisies have not had a good season. Next spring I need to replace them in ...

Imagine yourself standing in the middle of a group of people pouring out your soul about something you have researched and prepared diligently to deliver, only to have the group not acknowledge you, not look up, continuing to draw or doodle on the papers in front of them, play on their phones ...

I have always loved songs by John Denver. A while back I purchased two CDs of his greatest hits. I knew many of them, but not all of them. Some of the newer ones have become my favorites. I especially love “Some Days are Diamonds, Some Days are Stones”. That song has come to mean so much to ...

My mother always had her secrets. I found a few recently as I emptied boxes from her final rented storage space. Yes, as I wrote a few weeks ago, I’m still slogging away. I tackled the biggest job first: digging through photo album after photo album filled with strangers – to me. The ...