A Quick Look at February 2nd Celebrations 1) According to an old English song: If Candlemas be fair and bright, Come, Winter, have another flight; If Candlemas brings clouds and rain, Go Winter,...
Carnations have always been one of my favorite go-to flowers. I discovered long ago how wonderfully long lasting they are as cut flowers and since I love having fresh flowers in my home, and I like...
Martin Luther King, Jr., born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He was assassinated April 4,...
It’s the new year and one tradition we hear a lot about is the making of our New Year’s Resolutions. And how difficult they are to accomplish! It’s easy to...
We are not all travelers, or writers or photographers. But I find we all love stories of places and the people who make them different, alluring, exotic. Out of the ordinary and apart from the...
November 11th — a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace, Armistice Day was primarily a day set aside to honor veterans of World War I. But in 1954, after...
Filming of the town scenes for Ben Affleck’s newest movie project, “Live by Night”, began Monday, November 2 and is scheduled to conclude today, Wednesday, November 4,...
Cemeteries exemplify the coming together of life and death, nature and culture. Knowledge and emotion. The past and the future meet. It’s often a place to be quiet. To meditate. To allow a...
Istanbul Photos and Story by Nancy Kirkpatrick Some time ago good friends who are great travelers returned from a trip to Istanbul and couldn’t say enough wonderful things about the sites they’d seen,...