Category: Life

  • A Tribute to Anthony Bourdain

    A different perspective on suicide prevention.

  • Walking New Hampshire Reblog

    Walking New Hampshire Reblog

    I have been enjoying reading this mother and son’s journey walking across New Hampshire. I am inspired by their fighting spirit. They struggle to walk, something I take for granted and look what they did. Read about the trip and then I encourage to read the blog posts in the order they occurred. Be prepared…

  • Viable or Invisible?

    via Daily Prompt: Viable Words have different meanings in different places. In New York, viable meant worth doing, possible. A new creative project; a play, a musical to consider. Or it was a solution to a creative problem a friend was having. It meant my advice was wanted and sought. I was viable every day…

  • A Photo of Steaks.

    via Photo Challenge: Growth First, I had a heck of a time trying to post a photo on my blog. I use my iPhone to take all my photos and apparently during my hiatus Apple got rid of iPhoto and moved everything to Photos to make it easier to share photos across all devices. That’s…

  • Resolution: Life Will Interfere

    Writing. What does it mean? To me it has always meant using words to create pictures that affect other people. That’s the high flalutin’ answer. The reality is sitting for hours staring at a computer screen, usually with a bad posture, and creating ways to translate what’s in your head to a blank page with…

  • Roomba Poop

    Roomba Poop

    Everyone can use a good laugh. This Facebook post by Jesse Newton with his wife Kelly McQueen Newton brought laughing tears to my eyes. I had to share it. Some people see this as a reason not to get a Roomba, but the response from Hammacher Schlemmer, the sellers of Roomba, makes me want to purchase…

  • Slo-Mo Poodle

    The video I posted of my standard poodle puppy Charming playing with a Rhodisian Ridgeback puppy was very popular. So I have collected a playlist of Dogs at the Pond. But, first… Here is a video of me teaching Charming to jump on the commend. You must first get them to do the behavior. This…

  • 5 Cleaning Tips for When You Really Don’t Have Time | Simply Marquessa

    This cleaning tip post from Simply Marquessa is hilarious and a great example of taking the commonplace and making it extraordinary and funny. 5 Cleaning Tips for When You Really Don’t Have Time | Simply Marquessa