Coasting Along

Todd is downstairs watching a DVD of "How I Met Your Mother," and I am up here surfing around and actually feeling like writing, w...

The Women's History Month prompt for today is an intriguing one. If you could have lunch with any female family member (living or dead) ...

This has been an odd week, I have just not felt like sitting at the computer for more than a few minutes at a time. But here are a few of th...

Today's Women's History Month prompt from Geneabloggers : March 7: Share a favorite recipe from your mother or grandmother’s kitchen...

Today's Women's History Month prompt from Geneabloggers : March 6: Describe an heirloom you may have inherited from a female ancest...

Today's Women's History Month prompt from Geneabloggers : March 5: How did they meet? You’ve documented marriages, now, go back a bi...

I have been looking everywhere because I know I have a picture of the four generations of "Maes" from my post below...of course it...

Today's Women's History Month prompt from Geneabloggers : Do you share a first name with one of your female ancestors? Perhaps you w...

I've been out of town for a few days (more on that later) but I was catching up on my forums this morning and found some very interestin...

Forty years ago today somebody very special came into the world, and he grew up to become my husband! Todd has been a blessing to me every d...

I really don't mind winter, especially Virginia winter, which is "winter lite" compared to other places I've lived (Idaho,...

This is a fun test I found on another site: Color Career Counselor . When it gets to the part where it asks for all your information, just s...

I was going to run some errands this morning, but as the snow is falling again and accumulating far beyond what the weather people said it w...

This is the year I turn forty, and even though it doesn't happen until October, I am already wrestling with it hard. One of the many anx...

Well, we are just having a lovely day here...the snow is still coming down, although much more lightly, and I think we have four or five inc...

Whipping a small portion of my life into shape is just about one of the most satisfying things I can think of. Even if all else is chaos, at...

Just a quick picture for those who might be sick of winter...it's in the 60's here today, so I'm not sick of winter yet. I secr...

My friend Cheryl and I were just chuckling over how we didn't seem to have anything to chat about, because our lives are boring right no...

I heard this quote on The Writer's Almanac this morning and liked it: "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving...

Why is there an evil genie who compels me, after dropping off an entire carload of crap at the back of the thrift store, to then drive aroun...