slow mornings, simple joys

Since 1907, when Australian swimmer and star Annette Kellerman was charged with indecent exposure for wearing a sleeveless, formfitting tank suit on Boston’s Revere Beach, things have changed. By the 1950’s, the two piece bikini has become mainstream and by the 1970’s, bikinis were leaving little to the imagination, a development that also paralleled women’s…

  It is summer time which means flip-flops around my house or as Maggie calls them floppers! Although I have heard some people call them sandals as well. I typically try to get a new pair each summer because I live in the south and am hard on them. I wear them pretty much every…

I recently saw a picture of some fairy garden items in a magazine and thought they were so cute. I showed them to Ma who said we could do something like that in front of our fireplace outside because there was enough space. I thought that was a good idea and then set out to…

How many of you want to ensure that your children have empathy toward pets? For me it is very important because I feel that it one way that children learn to have empathy for people. When they feel for a pet or animal then they can easily parlay that into feeling for a human being….