For singer-songwriter Diane Birch, music was a refuge.  Although Diane was born in Michigan, her childhood was spent on the move as the daughter of a preacher, living between Zimbabwe, South Africa and Australia,...

These pictures were recently taken and I keep coming back to this series of them. There is something so beautifully childlike about enjoying a good ice cream cone. How often do we get to...

“Have you almost been struck by lightning? Eleven-year-old Violet Raines has, in more ways than one. And when she’s not dodging lightning or outrunning alligators, she’s trying to keep the prissy new girl from...

The incredible egg is a great source of protein and vitamin D. Great-tasting Horizon Organic® eggs come from cage-free hens that have the freedom to roam. They eat fresh 100% organic vegetarian feed and,...

Guilty Food Pleasures Things I Eat Despite Making Me Sick Food Pleasures Foods I Can't Resist Despite the Consequences It is time for Small Talk Saturday. Woohoo!  I am really having some fun with...

Victoria of Life Starring Ellie and Eve started this weekly series called The Mommy Confessions and I am participating. Anyone can join in. I was a rowdy and wild good Catholic girl growing up....

All Men Are Cremated Equal: MY 77 Blind Dates from Elizabeth Fournier had me hooked from beginning to end. I laughed, I gasped and I often shook my head in amazement. Oh yeah, I...

The day that the Exergen Temporal Scanner arrived in the mail, my husband opened it without even asking me because he know how I am about my freakin' packages. There has not been a day since...

I am ignoring my husband as he tries for about the hundredth time to explain the flaw in the logic of the movie The Terminator. I don't give a crap besides I have heard...

I like the ocean. I never really got to know the ocean until I moved to Hawaii after my sophomore year in high school. I hadn't really been to the ocean much until then....