If you'd asked me when I was fifty, when I would start to feel old, I would have told you 80ish. I turn 66 today and I'm starting t...

It's that time of year again when many of us are starting our gardens so we can eat the freshest and tastiest of vegetables, fruits and...

If you're struggling to pay off a mortgage and feeling a bit isolated because of it, read this wonderful thread at the forum. These a...

Forget Martha, meet Patrick, our barred Plymouth Rock rooster. :- )  I'm convinced now that he's a boy. I said on the day he ar...

As many of you know, my book The Simple Life had to be reprinted the day after it was published. I sincerely thank everyone who bought it ...

Hanno bought me an early birthday present - a new camera. :- ) I spent some time yesterday wandering around taking photos and seeing what t...

There are fashions in foods as well as clothes. At the moment the food fads seem to be kale, bone broth, any "new" grain such...

We're eating soup but I haven't changed the bed linen to flannel yet; the sun rises at 6 and night falls at 6; I haven't yet re...