Flaunting Your Life

Flaunting your life means being proud of who you are. Happy in yourself. Content with who you are and what you like. We are all just books still being written. What happens in the next chapter is up to you. Make it a good one!

Here Comes the Sun

It might be time to pull myself out of mothballs and emerge once again. The long, gray winter skies are finally starting to part and there is a chance of FOUR full days of sunny skies in our forecast! If you live in a maritime climate, you must appreciate those opportunities this time of year…

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New Books: I’ve Taken the Plunge!

For years, I’ve enjoyed writing books for the children in my extended family – some for my own kids and some for my nieces. After years of letting ideas languish in my “children’s stories” folder, I’ve taken the plunge and finished some and self-published them on Barnes & Noble. Their printing services are pretty good…

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Frosted Windowpanes

It’s been a cold, cold week for most of the U.S. I’ve still got snow on the ground and haven’t been able to leave my house in over a week. The single-pane windows in my garage have put on quite a show for me though – I love the frost images created on cold days. I think…

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FOTD: Flower of the Day – My garden 2023

Sharing photos of flowers I’ve taken in my garden this year: Kalmia “Olympic Fire” (if I remember correctly.) They are beautiful, low-maintenance, evergreen plants, similar to a rhododendron, but generally smaller. I love the bi-color look when the buds of hot pink contrast with the octagonal shaped light pink blooms. It blooms around mid-May for…

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FOTD: December 1, 2023

Flowers I grew and photographed in my garden this year. Flower of the Day: perfect for shade, these little hearts are fascinating when viewed up close.

Gifts for Gardeners

Skip the cheap hand tools and garden gloves that get holes in the fingers on first use. Gardeners want quality over quantity. I love gardening and have a list a mile long of items I should probably have to support my all-consuming hobby. If giving the gardener in your life a truck load of compost…

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Book List: Musical Backstories

The life of a rock musician is about as far from my reality as you can get, and one I could never live myself. But I have a unending appreciation for the techniques and process of creating music. This no doubt comes from growing up in the sixties and seventies, where melody and words mattered,…

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A Brilliant Autumn

Mid September I was getting rather concerned that the leaves on the trees would just fry and fall off dead, leaving me with no Autumn to look forward to. It had been a very dry summer (yet again) and no rain was in sight. And then came the end of October. BAM! Autumn seemed to…

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Sweet as Sugar

This playlist is oh so sweet… listen on Spotify to song by artists from the 40s and 50s such as Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole, the Mills Brothers and more – all singing tunes about their “sweet”hearts. Did you know you don’t need a subscription to listen on Spotify? It is free (if you don’t…

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