Greetings! It has been a long Winter and we are starting to see slight temperature changes to indicate that Spring is not too far away. Now that there are mandate changes for us, we can cautiously start to breathe a sigh of relief and begin to plan for the near future. Fairs and festivals will start happening again and I also have plans to make a trip to California in summer, so my friends on the West...

            Greetings! The New Year is always a better time for me than the Christmas holidays because I have too many close and personal feelings regarding the events around December 25th that I would rather forget. With a look towards a positive beginning, I welcome the New Year’s in with Hope and in excitement on what the Future will bring. For many as well as myself, it is a time to make Resolutions...

            The morning Sun belies the weather forecaster as the promising rays of light will be dimmed by a rainy wintry snow mix due to arrive by tonight. I checked the candles burning for those who are working through relationship and money issues, and brewed a cup of tea before settling in to write this to you. We are in Winter Season two of the pandemic and the stress and strain of living has chiseled...

          Greetings! I skipped September’s newsletter. I was on ‘pause’ from the long summer, and like a nervous parent, I was spending a lot of time anticipating the ‘birth’ of my crop of organically grown tomatoes reaching their maturity. The success of actually being able to plant tomatoes this year became an article published in the Wild Hunt, and you can read it if you click the...

          Greetings! The heat of the late Summer had me in a very lazy mood. Each day the Sun rose and quickly spread its heat over the mid-morning, so much so I was drinking my coffee at 5:30 iced. I would hide in the darker (and cooler) parts of the house from 12 to 6, only to emerge to pick a tomato or two from my plants and toss it into the nightly salad that I would make, as cooking was verboten. I decided to...

          Greetings! We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (The Preamble to the Declaration of Independence)   The holiday that we celebrate with parades, picnics, barbecues and fireworks, was a hard fought battle for our freedom. Our...