As many of you know I am a freelance editor mostly working for one client, Minority Business News that has quarterly trade publications...

I recently returned from Charleston, South Carolina. In the photo is what is called low country shrimp boil or Frogmore stew that a...

This time I am heading to Charleston, South Carolina, with some girlfriends. One of them has a daughter who lives in Charleston. She has...

I am in a book club which uses a curriculum from the Great Books Foundation (https://www.greatbooks.org). The last writings we reviewed...

My Sunday school class went out to dinner together last night. It is Restaurant Week in Dallas, and you can dine at fancy restaurants...

This photo is on the side of an apartment building across the street from my townhome. I have always been amazed at how artists can...

The photo is of a Food Network star, Bobby Flay, who is in a show called “Beat Bobby Flay,” among other things. Since I have been...

I travel back and forth to Oklahoma all the time because I have family that lives there. Often, I travel on its turnpikes. Recently, I...

While on vacation in Oxnard, California, I took a Channel Island wildlife cruise. It took us out to Anacapa Island where we saw the Arch...

I recently traveled to Oxnard, California to help my friend Donna Ward and her husband Sid celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. The...

While on vacation in Oxnard, California, I visited a retro bar named “1901 Speakeasy.” There is 1901 in the name because that’s the year...

I know it seems like I am gone all the time, but that is just the way things worked out this summer. I am leaving for Oxnard, California...

Pictured is a box of Kleenex or facial tissues on my night table. I seem to use more of them as I get older. Also, my nose seems to...

I just returned from a fabulous weekend of entertainment at the 36th annual Texas Shakespeare Festival in Kilgore, Texas. Kilgore has a...

I am going to Kilgore, Texas for my annual — except for last year — visit to the Texas Shakespeare Festival. Will see four plays: Romeo &...

Pictured are my red — what I call tennis — shoes. Guess I am old-fashioned. All those type shoes were called tennis shoes when I was...

I got this gift card from Trader Joe’s for my birthday. There is not a Trader Joe’s very close to me, but there is one close to where I...

The photo is of some funky colored plastic paper clips I have. I don’t know that they are as functional as regular metal paper clips, but...

The book pictured is “When the World Stopped to Listen: Van Cliburn’s Cold War Triumph, and Its Aftermath” by Stuart Isacoff. It is the...

I just watched part of the opening ceremony of the Toyko Olympics. The opening ceremony is always a spectacle and an absolute joy to...