A.D. and I have a weird little habit:  We collect the state magnets for each state we travel and keep them on the refrigerator.  It functions as a bit of fun as well as a reminder of where we need to travel...

Way back in Week 17 of Journal 52, there was a prompt called Rise or Fall that asked the journaler to consider ‘rising up, rising above or rising again’ and there was a bonus for creation of a...

While listening to The Nerdist podcast the other day, they promoted a new podcast, The Message.  The first time I heard the promo, I thought it sounded cool.  I then promptly forgot to write it down and forgot...

This week’s inspiration comes from the work of Beatriz Milhazes, a Brazilian artist born in 1960.  Her work is characterized by strong shapes from nature and bright colors. She is associated most highly...

I garden like mad.  Veggies and flowers.  They need a lot of nutrients and I am not a fan of blue or green fertilizers.  It is never a miracle that things grow, just curious that they get as big as they do...

I have a lot of confidential material to destroy daily and my workplace doesn’t have a stellar method for disposing of all this paper.  There are garbage bags full of shredded paper that get sent to...

We rarely stay directly in the city we are visiting and our trip to Chicago is no different.  You can usually save a couple hundred and get reasonable accommodations by staying in a nearby town.  We picked a...

This is the second part of a two-part series on our Hudson Valley Overnight, so head back and start at Part 1, we’ll be here when you’re ready! The Dover Stone Church Back on the road, we arrived...