Tilting at Windmills

I am closing this blog- it just isn't relevant anymore. I hope I will be posting more often on the new one:  What do you do with a teach...

It is a beautiful day! I am reminded of the opening lines of "White Christmas", the part hardly ever heard: "the sun is shini...

Tomorrow I am going to see the Wanamaker's Light Show. Yes, I know, Macy's...but it will always be the Wanamaker show to me.  I hear...

This is a picture from one of the news channels of a street near downtown Philadelphia this morning. It has not been a good couple of days f...

So, somewhere, I caught another cold. Spent basically the whole week either in bed or the recliner and accomplished very little. I did a lit...

Twenty years ago I lost one of my dearest friends to AIDS. He was funny, loving and incredibly talented. I met Marcus during our first days ...

I am sitting here, when I should be in bed- tomorrow will be a long day! But I am happy to be able to report that I expect it to be a nice d...

Well, it has been seen- the 50th Anniversary show of Doctor Who. It made me smile, it made me laugh, it came close to making me cry. I won...

We are now into November 23, the Day of the Doctor! We had a short discussion earlier this evening, settling our plans. So, the TV is now se...

November 22 always resounds with me, for more than just the obvious reason. When I was 8, I had already developed a deep love of playing the...

That last post was really dismal- which kind of matched how I was feeling. So, I spent some time playing with the iPad - which I just notice...

Well, clearly I am not doing well on the daily posting. It is not that I have nothing to write, it is just I don't do it. Not sure why. ...

This picture has been running on Facebook, including my own page, since July. Sadly, Roy has been found, dead. One more CD tragedy; there ha...

Well, I clearly fell completely off the posting wagon. It has been a bad week. Frustration and exhaustion abounding. Absolutely nothing I wa...

As I get older, this darn Fibromyalgia seems to get worse. I am not sure if it actually does, or if it is just that at my age, anything make...

This is really kind of cheating, but I drove for 2 days and I am too beat to think. Back tomorrow.

So, here it is November 6th, and this is only my second post this month. Ah, well. Doing this from my iPad, so I have no idea what this will...

Well, if you look on my sidebar, you will see the link that is also posted right above this. That is the National Blog Posting Month badg...

  Today, my husband began his last year at Girard College. This would be a happy event, were it not for the fact that *his* Girard C...

  So, where have I been for more than a year? Well, I have traveled almost 25,000 miles since I last posted. I have been to Hawaii ...