The Union

OK, take a look at these optics; the Peaceable Kingdom. Kitty and doggie share a minute of peace over a shared family meal. Who'd guess that most of the last nine months have been spent growling, hissing, and swatting at each other?

Yankee Stoicsm

January, as I say every year, is my least favorite month. I celebrate its passing. But it's a valuable month if you make it so

Fabrication

We all tell ourselves little lies to get by. Blunt honesty sometimes doesn't do it, and we resort to those little white lies that help us justify a gamut of conditions from I'm too lazy, to I hate it. " I'll do it as soon as I get home this afternoon," for taking out the trash.

The Inner Child

Some of the questions you get on the Word Press platform read as though a personality profile company generated them. Word Press, are you profiling us?

True Life

Plum Island sunset -copyright, L.N Carreras

Carl Hiassen is my favorite author, and when I started writing the "Adventures In coastal Living" stories and the stories about the "Folkie Palace" on Boston's Beacon Hill, I was inspired by him.

Stairs

If I had a giant eraser, I'd rub out the stairs in our house. But, of course, there'd be no way to get to the second story. The problem lies with how steep and narrow the stairs are.

Mastery

Overcoming fear is a tricky thing. Not having driven until my early thirties ( It's New York City thing!) I was leary of driving.

Travel

We walked those long city blocks for miles when I was young in New York City.

Success

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." George S. Patton