July is get-togethers with family and friends and cooking on an electric grill outside, playing ball with the dog, soaking in a hot tub and pool until your skin is puckered, leaving the sprinklers on for the wild birds and running through it too, walking barefoot on the grass in … [Read more...]

For Mother’s Day, I fly a garden flag on my house that depicts a gardenia and a butterfly because “Gardenia” was my mom’s nickname and a big beautiful butterfly appeared to me on the day she died…long after the butterflies of summer had gone. We both had a fondness for … [Read more...]