The Twist from a Twisted Sister!

I had some odd things happen this week .... Singularly, they aren't that big of a deal but cumulatively it's a bit scary.  It started last week with book club when I joined the zoom call and they start talking about the book and I'm scratching my head going. "What are...

When I first saw it I just thought it was creative but little did I know.... One of my favorite places to visit in Arizona besides the Grand Canyon is Quartzsite. Huh? Yes, Quartzsite besides being a major RV destination in the winter it has the best wholesale bead and gem...

I mentioned a few weeks back.... that I was taking a watercolor class.  I just can't believe how hard it is and honestly I'm really bad at it. My teacher tells me it's a right left brain thingy but I just think I suck! So after a few days of beating...

With all the turmoil that is going on.... it really is hard to imagine that anyone has any civic pride. But this story just touched me for some odd reason.  The town of Winters, California is a small farming community of about 7000 folks. But in the last few years...

My Dad always said.... "The list of things I know for certain is much, much shorter that the things I don't!" So for those of you that don't know Arizona's Sonoran Desert is the only home for the Saguaro Cactus. The Saguaro is the tallest of the cacti and it only grows below...

Just where do I start???? As many of you might know, last year I was blessed to become a Juried Member of the Sonoran Arts League. It is quite an honor. One of my favorite statements by a panel member is, It's difficult to make 'beads' unique but this artist...

Since moving to Arizona I have seen some of the most amazing sunrises and sunsets.... If you would like to see them too just Google Sonoran Desert Sunsets and just look what comes up. Here are just a few examples: Sonoran Desert Sunrise  Sonoran Desert Sunset I am sharing this...

When you live in the desert conversations about snakes are far from rare.... but San Francisco? Specifically SFO Airport??? I need to start at the beginning. Back in the late 70's I was so anxious to start my new life in San Francisco. It was time to to shed the...

I'm such a sucker for things that point to extremes.... Like the smallest or the largest. It started in grade school when I got competitive with my neighbor, Keith. We were both in 4-H and wanted to win a metal at our County Fair for growing something HUGE.  Keith wanted...

Last week I wrote about interesting party ideas.... and just like that I got an email from my dear friend, Linda. Linda has a very creative and scary smart grand daughter. We'll call her V for short. Well, V had a wedding shower for her gal pals and what do...

Back in the day, I was always looking for interesting new party ideas....   So much so that after many years of living together my Significant Other (Do you believe we used that stupid phrase?) and I decided to get married as we needed a new party idea! Let's just...

Maybe things really are getting back to normal.... Before Covid I would talk about the Serendipity of Words and Thoughts. At times I felt like someone was shadowing me as I would see or hear something and then hours later someone would mention a related topic. It was great for me...

It's time to get rid of crutch words.... Last week I took part in a podcast about the importance of having a Newsletter if you sell online. (Thank you Kirby and Kyle!)You can listen to it HERE if you like. But it got me thinking about my writing and speaking. I've mentioned many...

My Cousin Tom in Ohio..... sent me these amazing photos of the Cicada infestation at a wedding they attended in the Midwest. If you click the pictures you will be connected to an astonishing time lapse video. What a story. I had no idea. Did you? Here is the brief back story...

Picasso often asked? “Do you complain because roses have thorns or do you rejoice because thorns have roses." This all got started after a trip to Safeway and I noticed that there were an excess number of green rose bouquets. I thought this was odd because we are no where near St. Patty's...

Why do I feel stories like these will be going around for years and years? With Covid finally behind us some of the most bizarre stories and behaviors are coming out. Take this one for example from Alameda, CA that involves  a  gardener, a wagon, and a sense of pandemic-era camaraderie....

I like to joke that it is a good thing I have GPS because I could get lost in an elevator...Remember Maps? When is the last time you looked at one? My dear friend Sue sent this to me and I really thought it gives new meaning to a Picture...

Perhaps you may recall that pre-Covid I wrote that many times I felt like I was being followed... If you would like to read it again click HERE.  A few weeks back our book club read Radium Girls by Kate Moore. (Its a great book if you haven't read it.) It's about...

If  you were one of the two people who watched the Academy Awards this year... You may have notice that this year’s Academy award for Best Documentary went to “My Octopus Teacher,” an eccentric and unexpectedly tender film about a South African man who grows obsessed with an octopus living in...

It's all in the wording... Can you imaging in the late 19th century answering a personal ad seen in the Boston Herald from a farmer in Idaho looking for a wife? Naturally you would write a few letters back and forth and when Spring arrived you would jump in a covered wagon...