#CrazyLampLady’s Craziness is Infectious.

I follow #CrazyLampLady on YouTube. She's a vintage thrifter who stalks the stock at Goodwill and antique malls in Pennsylvania. I believe her name is Jocelyn and flips a lot of minimally priced decorative pieces for a profit. She works on quantity with up ton2 dozen new items flipping in eBay every day.  She loves…

The Unpredictable Pursuit of Zen

My Zen was not quite the meditative peacefulness I sought.

Was this a bird-brained purchase? What would you do?

What should be done with these 9 ft toy birds

If only, then…. My Life Would Have Been Different

Listening is a critical skill, that I am probably less skilled at than most. In my defense, I grew up with a family with a different listening strategy.

Through Our 12 Years of Marriage My True Love Shared with Me…

12 years later, amid the Corona Virus pandemic that seems to deplete a new joy every day (hugging, singing, dining out, imbibing, theater, movies, concerts, visiting friends and family, international travel, traveling across state lines and using public restrooms are all found to be risky and are mostly restricted) I thought it might be good to recap the mostly peaks of a happily wedded life.

Searching for the Good Old Days in a Slice of Pie

That's what the world is missing today, more places to sit down and eat pie.

If I two-step they will come, well, maybe

Throughout my marketing career, I've had enough experience with crowd mentality to know, unless there's a prize at stake, most people don't like to go first.

Living life in love and joy – Celebrating Potential

To some it may seem like setting the bar pretty low, motivated perhaps by several consecutive trying years.

Creepy Stuff that Doesn’t Bother Me

A dozen large and small spiders stood their ground. They thought they'd claimed the room by adverse possession.

My Secret Life as a Hawk

I had to tell myself quite sternly to leave the sky, and get back into my own body in the car and get to work.