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We got our first frost warning last night.  So it’s time to fire up the wood stove, heat up the hot chocolate and pull out the fall bucket list. These are some of the things I love to do when the weather gets crisp and the leaves turn gold and red. What would you add…

Scents. Smells. Fragrances. Olfactory sensations. Sniffs. From the buttery or chocolatey scent of homemade cookies baking in the oven when we step through the door after school, to the pungent fragrance of pine needles when we finally put up the live Christmas trees, we are much more connected to our sense of smell than we…

Did you ever hear the old joke about the Christopher Columbus method of typing – I put my fingers down and then discover what I’ve typed?  As a writer, I’ve had that kind of experience more than once.  And, no, I don’t mean my typing is terrible…although I would never make a great typist, probably…

I was one of those kids who didn’t have a dad when I was growing up.  I have very faint recollections of a tall man wearing a large overcoat with deep pockets that occasionally held candy. But, unfortunately, alcohol became far more important to my father than his eight children and he left us when…

Knock, knock. Who’s there? Interrupting cow. Interrupting cow w…. Moo!    That was one of my kids’ favorite knock-knock jokes as they were growing up.  And we ALWAYS had knock-knock jokes, some made a lot more sense than others.  Laughter, jokes and children, they all seem to go together.  But do you know what doesn’t…

Noise! It’s all around us. From the soft rumbling of our appliances to the hustle and bustle of traffic.  We moved from the city of Chicago – under the O’Hare flight path, several blocks away from the Chicago Northwestern Railroad tracks and only steps away from the Eden’s Expressway – to five acres of grass…