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Who is St Valentine? Was he a temple priest who lived in the 1400s and beheaded by Claudius II for helping Christian couples get hitched? At the time, men were serving in the Roman army and were not allowed to
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Christmas is over. You undressed your tree by taking off the ornaments and strings of lights and placing them in their designated plastic containers labeled “Christmas decorations.” You took your tree and put it in a “tree bag” or box
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“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.” ― Virginia Woolf Do you remember the first time you wrote a note
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A swift streak of color, A silhouette in jade, Ultra marine! A flash of silver underneath On all will be seen. ~Margaret Wheeler Ross (1867–1953), “Spring Styles on the Desert: The Lizard” Gambel’s quail Saucy black plumes on copper berets
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Are you reading this in your pajamas? The sales of pajamas have tripled in the last five months, and the sales of business wear have decreased. Maybe you are wearing an old T-shirt and sweatpants? Boxer shorts? Or naked? When
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Coronavirus Day #20 The invisible enemy. A war is fought between two or more enemies. Soldiers fight for their countries wearing uniforms to distinguish enemies from friends. These soldiers identify themselves by the color of their uniforms and the patches
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Bartlesville, Oklahoma was not on my bucket list. My daughter lives in Tulsa and suggested we visit Bartlesville and stay in the Price Tower, a forty-five-minute drive from her home. Price Tower, located in Bartlesville, is one of the only
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Cowboy Slang Edgar “Frosty” Potter Have you ever wondered how cowboys communicate? Here are 11 examples of describing “hot”. _______________________________________________________________________________ So hot it’d slip hair on a polar bear. So damn hot that if a man died an’ went to
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He is buried in Quartzsite, Arizona. His grave is a pyramid topped with a copper silhouette of a camel. He died while he was trying to round up a camel who had been scaring the people in the Arizona desert.
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Plans to walk in the steps of the Shogun, eat yakitori on the street, visit Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, and the Imperial Gardens were washed away by a typhoon on October 12, 2019. Now, what. I had pet sitters
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