It's that time of year again. Many Americans will prepare a lavish meal of celebration and thanks while spending time with family and...

We’re hunkered down here in northeast Florida with a Nor’easter blowing through for a couple of days. It’s not actually snowing because...

“Leave it,” is a popular training command used when a dog is misbehaving or unfocused. It is preferred over “no,” but a brief enough...

Are you resistant to change? Usually, I am. When things are going well, I want them to stay that way. When my sons were little, there...

I’m a fence sitter. I don't like going too far on either side and I can see green grass on both sides. And when there are many choices,...

Our neighborhood has many hawks so the only reason I noticed this one was because of the desperate call for help coming from beneath its...

Gerald Grapefruit was nurtured by my sister on their farm in Tennessee during his formative years. She planted seeds from a particularly...

Black clouds were rolling in from the east over the Atlantic as I drove to church that morning, late again. My umbrella and pink...

Laura was one of those friends who, even though months and years went by without a visit, you immediately caught up with as if no time...

Parking in a shady spot at the doctor’s office, I obeyed the “Florida rule” of cracking my windows to reduce heat accumulation. After my...

Journalist Cynthia Barnett came to our local independent bookstore, Story & Song, to discuss her new book, The Sound of the Sea. She...

I love a good plan and recently my dog, Leah, helped me see that there is more to a successful plan than reaching short term goals. ...

Dad was a gentle soul with a love for travel and food, who was thoughtful and giving, and the best letter writer I have ever known. I’ve...

It hardly seems possible that the dog that most influenced my life and helped raise my two boys has been gone for ten years. When I...

You may have assumed from the title that my social life has gone up a notch. In fact, that is not the subject of this blog, but rather...

"Never let a good baby go to waste" was one of Mom’s expressions, usually said right before she scooped up an infant in her arms and...

The day my second grandson was born, his dad, my firstborn, called the house to inform the gathered family members. After assurances...

Our local print paper, The Fernandina Beach News-Leader, recently published one of my stories. I instinctively clipped it for Mom, the...

Spring is arriving already in Northeast Florida. As I check on the emerging amaryllis, snip sprigs of lush parsley, catch the scent of...

Boneyard Beach on Big Talbot Island (Jacksonville, Florida) was my last nature adventure destination of 2020 and turned out to be a...