Just One Thing
I sat down at a table next to a woman in Starbucks, head buried in her computer, tapping away furiously. On a second glance I recognized her as an acquaintance. She looked up and we exchanged pleasantries. Not that she...
Author: Irene Macmillan
Know Your Food, Know Your Farmer : One girl’s mission by Carrie Grace York
Know Your Food, Know Your Farmer : One girl’s mission to create awareness about where our food comes from and educate the next generation on the benefits of locally produced food. Last year I presented plans to the Principal of my...
Book Review – Recipes for Love and Murder: A Tannie Maria Mystery by Sally Andrew
The reviews said that if you are a fan of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Books by Alexander McCall Smith you will love this book. I am a big fan of Alexander McCall Smith’s work and did indeed like...
The Old Green Pot: Memories of My Mother by Lisa Beasley
I am the first to admit I get attached to things. If it weren’t for the fact I hate clutter, I’d be a classic hoarder in every sense of the word. (Not the trash kind though…..that’s just nasty.) I even...
Shot At Dawn: In Flanders fields the poppies blow
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row ……… They blew in May 1915 when Canadian army doctor, John McCrae, wrote these immortal lines. They blow today. Colorful memorials of a war-torn world entrenched in the bloody,...
Book Review : Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition audiobook
Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition is a course by Professor Grant Hardy of the University of North Carolina compiled for The Great Courses. We listened to the audio book, Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition, on some...
In Your Grief – Thoughts on a Sudden Death
Let the flowers die unwatered in their vases. Flowers? Yes, they are there. Someone needed to do something. Accept them graciously. Or not. God knows this is bleak, unchartered territory for you ….. You with this gaping hole, groping around...
The One Thing I Take – Salad Recipe
I am not a “foodie” as I said in the article The One Thing I Bake – but this salad recipe is definitely the one thing I take whenever I need to take anything to a party, fiesta, bbq or book...
Much Ado About Zika
Out with Ebola – the Zika virus has us all hot under the collar right now ! New? Not really – its been around since the 1950s, but only last year jumped the equatorial belt and went viral all over...
A Day in the Life – Entry in a World War 1 Diary by Malcolm Gough
A Day in the Life My grandfather sailed from Cape Town, South Africa to England on Thursday 10th May 1917 to join the RFC (Royal Flying Corps) in the ‘War to End All Wars’(as World War 1 is commonly known):...
This Adult Coloring Thing
Three of the top ten books on Amazon’s best selling list are adult coloring books. I am not sure whether to be appalled at the dumbing down of the American intellect or amused at our attempts to escape the stress...
A Walk in the Somme by Malcolm Gough
A hundred years since World War One…. My current view that history is more effectively understood the more you can see it through the eyes of the participants, is put to the test on a bleak winter’s day as I...
Suspend Your Inner Critic by Holly Rizzuto Palker
A snow day gives us all a break. Join blogger Holly Rizzuto Palker as she considers a jump ! Please click here to read : SUSPEND YOUR INNER CRITIC Holly is a blogger and freelance writer. You can follow...
Book Review : Cormoran Strike Novels by Robert Galbraith
Hundreds and hundreds of books are hyped every day. We are very spoiled for choice, hence my love for a good book review. The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith would probably not have made it to my bedside table had...
You Can’t Parent Happy
Welcome to the age of parenting in a world that is supercharged with agendas, celebrates success regardless of merit and fast tracks early front runners, deserving or not. My friends and I lament the state we find ourselves in. We...
