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“I live by goosebumps.”–Quincy Jones Birdsong. A double rainbow. Really hot Latin music. Capturing a perfect moment on my digital camera (like the photo above). Watching an ah-ha [...]

“Tuscan Hills” by Stephanie Bennett Vogt If you love taking and looking at photos as much as I do, you’re going to love the gizmo my husband gave me for my birthday. It’s [...]

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.” –Henry David Thoreau Fall. More than it just being one of the most beautiful seasons in New England where I [...]

I came across this poem recently tucked deep in a file on my computer I called “Remembering.” I know nothing about the author Jonathan Leavy,* or how this poem found me. It must have [...]

Beautiful video. Gorgeous images. Timeless wisdom. Use the flaws  (i.e. misspellings) as another opportunity to observe attachment and… let it go! Passion. Not perfection.

I need a microscope to read some of the business cards I receive these days. It amazes me when I see the email address and phone numbers –  in the tiniest possible font – jammed into one of the [...]

The title comes from a swoon I posted on my Facebook Page last week. Actually it read: “Birdsong + Coffee + Back porch (after spring cleaning) = Heaven. I had spent a good part of the [...]

As my daughter prepared to leave home for college for the first time last fall, I wrote a post a called “Packing: How Much Stuff is Too Much.” I thought my “bottom line” [...]

“We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.” –Anais Nin In a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? [...]

If blogs are homes, then I’ve outgrown mine. Again. It’s been nearly a year of musing, shmoozing, sharing, wondering, nooding, exploring… Expanding. Two posts a week adds up, [...]