This past week my family and I were on vacation in Quebec as we attended a double family reunion. Gathered together were relatives from both sides of my husband’s family. This was our children’s first family reunion ever attended and it was literally a living example of some branches in our family tree for them. Add to that the bilingual factor of those who could speak only French, only English, or some degree of both. We noticed that the children didn't necessarily need lang

This week my husband and I are celebrating our 47th wedding anniversary! That’s 17,167 days, or 412,008 hours, or 27,720,480 seconds of marital bliss, with a few moments that we both remember being less than euphoric. As the calendar advances toward the date when our “till death us do part” vows were taken, we can’t help but reminisce: the wedding day that was hotter than blazes. . . the delayed honeymoon (when my spouse got so sick with food poisoning that I thought I was go

Here we are part way into June already. High school and college graduations have already happened or are happening now. Graduates are celebrating their achievements and looking to the future. It’s an exciting time! In thinking about what has been accomplished and planning new goals in life, people can be led to the creation of bucket lists, short or long. I thought about my own bucket list and what it would be at this point in my life. Have you ever done that? A lot of people

Did you know that June is the official “Adopt a Cat Month?” I only recently discovered so, but I must admit that my husband probably won’t be overly excited about my learning of this celebration. To me this is a wonderfully logical opportunity to increase the size of our feline family, but I’m confident he will not see anything logical about my thought process. He knows it’s just that I really love those four-legged creatures! I’m not quite sure where the fascination origina