I’ve traveled to many a-far country.  I grew up in Maine on the Canadian border – and while that was not ‘far’ (to get to Canada), there have been several travels that took me a good distance from home.  Between…

It seems as if I could write a thousand stories of wonderful Christmas experiences from just my personal life alone.  But for this year, I have chosen just the following one. For more than three and a half years, I…

I don’t know if you ever watched the early 2000’s TV show, ‘Monk’ starring Tony Shalboub, but I enjoyed the show from time to time.  Shaloub’s character was Adrian Monk, a brilliant former San Francisco detective.  Monk suffered from an…

Before cigarette commercials were banned on American television in 1971, I remember a really attractive cigarette commercial targeting women.  Their slogan was ‘You’ve come a long way, baby!’  The commercial was well done and if you were a woman and…

Many years ago when we were building our home in Massachusetts, we needed to pick out every last thing that would go in and on that house.  Everything from flooring, to countertops, to wood finishes, to hardware for cupboards, to…