Category: The Softer Side

This seems to be happening more frequently lately. For a while I thought it was my (old) age, but I’m beginning to think that it isn’t. This is happening to […]

Well, they’re driving me crazy again this year! I always thought they were an infestation of the common ladybugs that we see in the garden in the summer and think “how […]

Driving to get groceries the other day, I met with two motorcycles, the 3-wheel kind. Maybe they call them tricycles; not sure, but right away I thought they are a safety […]

Have you ever noticed the odd things that people have in their car? I was talking to a neighbor a few days ago, and she mentioned a turkey baster that […]

Both of my maternal grandparents grew up in Vermont, but they later settled in Connecticut where my grandfather taught high school history. In the mid-1930s, they bought a small house in North […]

It’s another wet, gloomy day and I’m trying to get some housework done before I settle down with my book. I was thinking about the past weekend and the VAE […]

If you are reading this article, Mother’s Day will have come and gone, so it will have to be a “Women Day” piece.  As I was taking care of the […]

With another cold spell approaching, it’s probably time to empty the woodstove ashpan once again. For those of you who don’t have to do this chore, lucky you. Over the […]

The Duster Coat first caught my attention when my daughter, Tammy, decided to make one for a friend. She obtained a pattern from Etsy online and fabric from Joann’s. She completed […]

Come gather ‘round people Wherever you roam And admit that the watersAround you have grown… I will let you google the rest of the song if you wish. It wasn’t really the […]