Never been a blogger myself but I am going though a bad time & some heartbreak so I figure why not.
Maybe if I write this down it will help some so here goes.
I fell in love with the most beautiful girl I had ever seen 21 years ago almost today. She was from Michigan & I was living in Florida. I had been working on this restaurant for over a year now third shift to be exact. She had dark hair & the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen before. Her name was the most beautiful...

I could only laugh as I put the almond slivers on his cake..... it kept me from crying. Today is his birthday and it is the first of his birthdays that I will have spent with him.

While usually the cakes I make are beautiful as well as delicious, this thing is just a huge mess. Everything on it tastes good, but the thing is a wreck.

I have come a long way in this life, I am happy to say, and I suppose this will be the first of many messy cakes between the two of...

In her latest newsletter, Pema Chodron sends the observation: "When we start to develop maitri for ourselves, unconditional acceptance of ourselves, then we’re really taking care of ourselves in a way that pays off. We feel more at home with our own bodies and minds and more at home in the world. As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people."

It is a fairly common thing for my friends (who are members of a very small group) to tell me that...

The title of the post says "little books", that is, books that could be reasonably expected to fit in a pocket. But they're not really little; one is over eight hundred pages; it's titled Pocket Ref.

These have the same publisher and the same group of authors; I'm surprised so few people are aware of them.

Do you need to know how to give CPR to your dog or cat?

Do you need to find the right drill size for a particular screw?

What...

Western Springs is in Cook Co. It has uniformly desirable schools / neighborhoods, which should come as no surprise as you can probably pick a costly half gallon of delicous milk in a heavy glass bottle from the Oberweiss shop across from the RR depot AND LUG IT BACK HOME from any spot in town in about 30 minutes. It is extremely compact. Neighboring Hinsdale lies partially within Cook Co, but largely inside DuPage Co. It is the rare town where every single one of its elementary schools and middle...