Jungle Tropics and Turquoise Beaches: Paradise at the Playa in Riviera Maya, Mexico

Need a break from holiday stress? Check out this hiking adventure.

Giving firefighters something to talk about… or laugh about.

Retardant Drops… what happens when pilots miss their target?

Lessons learned on the fireline… it happened a few decades ago, but it’s still true today.

Sometimes proving yourself can be tricky business.

Do you have a favorite Mother’s Day card? Mine shows an electric mixer poised, dripping over a bowl of chocolate cake batter: “A good mom let’s her kid lick the beaters. A great mom turns it off first.”

Sorrow in Ukraine… and everywhere.

Have you ever fallen asleep on the job? I have! How tired do you need to be to fall asleep on a tree?

Happy New Year 2022 Movie Review

Horse Lessons. Saying goodbye to beautiful things.

Two years ago this week, I took a trip to Colorado’s Storm King Mountain that I’d been dreading for 25 years… 

You know you live in the country when your neighbor offers you fresh mountain lion scat…

Book Review of a great read set in France during World War II.

Last Thursday I did something unusual; I invited an older couple over for dinner. I was sitting next to them (6 feet apart) at a meeting when I felt prompted to just do it…

Anxiety rises within when I turn on the news to see or hear of thousands of people flooding over the border. Can our economic system sustain the help they’ll need to start their new life? Will crime rates rise? How will this “border crisis” affect my life?

My husband and I always try for leaner meals through the month of January. It’s a good way to balance the excesses of December. This year it was easy to cut sweets for a time since we felt the lingering loss of appetite from the Covid virus. It also helped that we couldn’t smell…

On Day 5 of suffering through Covid, I laid in bed with just enough brain wavelengths for a bittersweet memory. My thoughts had drifted 25 years back to my friend Tom. I met him when I needed a farrier to trim my horses’ hooves.