I've always loved everything about Christmas. With the loss of my two parents nine months ago, this Christmas is quite different. Now, decades later, I am more closely relating to how my mother must have felt trying to make Christmas…
There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven”. ~ Harriet Tubman There couldn't have been a more opportune time than at the conclusion…
"Sanctuary, on personal level, is where we perform the job of taking care of our soul." ~ Christopher Forrest McDowell In rural Maryland there are an astonishing number of old churches and chapels. One of the most popular thought masters…
"Keep calm, go set and have a cup of tea," I said to myself after I hung up the phone. Oh my lucky stars! Right now I'm grinnin' like a 'possum eatin' a sweet tater! I've been invited and I've…
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I find myself thinking summer will be over any day until I look out the window and see few remarkable elemental differences. Unlike in my previous states of…
"Your heart and my heart are very old friends." ~ Hafiz She's the salt of the earth, I've often thought as I've spent time over the course of my life with my childhood neighbor, Marge. It's been many a year…
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. ~ Author Norman Cousins For an author, what better way to spend a birthday weekend than exploring Baltimore's treasured Peabody Library at Johns…
"Waters Reflection, moonbeams and sparkling rivers challenge an artist to capture an ever changing light. "~ Mary Magenta "This is where it all started," Mary Magenta said, "with one single calendar I made as a gift using magic markers." She proceeded…
Welcome back to blog #2 about an artist in New Freedom, PA. Because of her unbounded exuberance for describing her life as an artist, it was a challenge to interview and keep up with recording "exactly out of her mouth…
The book you don’t read won’t help. –Jim Rohn Who remembers the milkman? I do! But, I've never yet met a milkman's daughter ... that is, until now! Evidently she's read my book Gift of a Lifetime: Finding Fulfilling Things in the…