My favorite miniaturist artist, Diem Chau, is raffling off some of her wonderful crayon sculptures. The winner will get up to 3 crayons carved to their specifications with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the Japanese Red Cross Society. Each raffle ticket costs only $10.00 and the drawing is March 24th. Go to her…

Yesterday I participated in an annual “rite of spring” bike ride. My husband invited me to be his guest writer on his blog if I would be so kind to write my impressions of the bike ride. So I did, and I hope you don’t mind going over there to his blog to see all…

It’s cold outside and dark, but inside it is friendly and warm and the music plays with an irresistible rhythm and the dance floor is covered with lively couples orbiting the room. This winsome couple focuses on the beat and on their moves as they dance gracefully in effortless unison, captured in a moment that…

There is a time in a young person’s life where they feel all grown up, but they aren’t and they also feel like their parents do not give them credit for their maturity. So, even though their bodies might be mature, or nearly so, they truly are still children, as they pout and sigh, and…