Reluctant Rebel

 My niece Andrea has a beautiful voice and has made two videos on YouTube of this Christmas classic. Personally I prefer the video of her si...

     A little too long, but...     Off Season:   Thanks Debra

 One of my favorite YouTube channels is Pasta Grannies . I've learned so much about making homemade (from scratch) pasta and I'm ama...

This Speaks for Itself

So, after 32 years together, I underestimated Leon's powers of persuasion - again. I was content to stay home.  But Leon had it in his m...

 This pretty much sums up how I feel (the actual Fireworks, not the song, as I cannot understand but half the words she sings...I think I ha...

We haven't been watching a lot of Netflix lately but here are some picks: The Queen's Gambit The mini-series starts out slow and, we...

Celebrating a Biden/Harris WIN in New Mexico!

Yes, I too can feel the relief. It is palatable. I definitely understand the emotional abuse we've all suffered under the fascist woul...

As I described in my memoir, I went through therapists like Kleenex. Fortunately I didn't have electroshock or other draconian "tre...

I'm not sure what to make of this...never heard of this Easter tradition, but it seems a bit bizarre. The history of Catholicism has man...

How many times have I mentioned that one reason we moved to New Mexico was to get away from the snow in New England. Yesterday it found us....

Our big boy Benni loves the grass...and our town green has the only real grass for miles around..

Went to Pride Festival in Santa Fe with Denise and the dogs, Benni and Gilbert (our house guest while his dads are away). New York it a...

Matthew Shepard's ashes were interred this week at the National Episcopal Cathedral. A bright spot because the interment is not only f...

This is for my hubby, Leon, in celebration of our 4th Anniversary and 30 years of sharing our lives with one another. So I am posting this l...

Sunday was a stay-indoors Netflix day: cold, wet and dreary. We decided to binge-watch an Australian 4-episode miniseries called Deep Water....

Ok, so I don't really know what the lyrics are supposed to mean (I'm dense, I admit) but something about this song fits my mood toda...

There are way too many (or not nearly enough, depending on your point of view) cute animal videos on the web. But here are a few from the ...