A Gentle Madness by Nicholas A Basbanes, is my  favorite title ever for a book. Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for books.  That is it. If you are not a reader, just delete this. You won’t find it interesting at all. I don’t know what the world would mean to me if I couldn’t, [...]

Where on earth was I?  How could I have been away for so long.  June 22 went in for knee replacement surgery and Poof, there went my blogging skills.   To tell you the truth whenever I have had surgery, the anesthesia takes me somewhere else for a while. Sometimes longer than others.  I came [...]

Time for a new knee.  The date is made, the tests are getting done and the time closer. I will be very happy when this is done.   I know it is going to be difficult and I have lots of physical therapy which I must do if I want a perfect outcome. I hope [...]

Have you got your little blow up doll to send up into the sky.  I don’t know what that is for, but it sounds like fun. I wonder how many different ways can the bible be mixed up?  How many different mathematical equations can the doomsayers create? I read 2012 and have to agree that [...]

I like Mother’s Day very much.  I like that I am a mother and a grandmother and that my life worked out that way. I am not very sure that  I ever  thought a lot about how my mother felt about being a mother later on in life. But the first time I heard she [...]

At first I didn’t feel much interest in the wedding per say.   I thought it would be nice and maybe fun to catch a little. But as the time approached April 27, I began to realize I would be seeing and taking part in history and might as well record the whole thing.   [...]

Hi to all my friends who read this. I have not been here, for so long.  I have discovered a group who loves British Mysteries and Scandinavian, and European and Irish. The group on this list is wonderful and my life has flowered in that direction. It is so much fun to be with people [...]

I love to watch the Sunday morning news shows.   I am a junkie of world news.  The things happening in the Middle East are fantastic. For centuries, the people of  Middle East have been invaded, been overrun and divided up and never  really been themselves.  Suddenly all this is changing. We have no idea [...]

There are necessities, and there are things that really don’t make a difference to me.   I am learning to tell the difference. For months I have been pondering over getting myself a walk in tub.   It is not a cheap decision. It will probably cost five thousand dollars when I am done with [...]

The other day in my spiritual class we were talking about addictions.   I have always been addicted to reading, being informed about everything especially how thing work and how to understand other people.  I have always wanted to make the world a better place.  My teacher has told me I am an old soul, [...]

At seventy six I have lived a long and full life.  I am wise in many ways, but I wasn’t always. I have been talking to a relative who always brings up that I should examine what I did to make my children the way they are now.   It set me to thinking about all [...]

A rainy day in California.  A perfect day to pass Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. At last things are beginning to make sense in Washington. As a 76 year old white haired woman I am so happy to see things heading in the right direction for our country.  So much more to be done and I [...]

I have lived in my neighborhood for six months now and last night on Halloween, I felt baptized, at home and so happy.  At least fifty kids came to my door dressed up in costumes with their wonderful parents watching over them behind the picket fence.   I had my cauldron on the porch, I [...]