It doesn’t surprise me that the month of July is named after Julius Caesar.  After all he was born in this month.  Back then they called it Quintilis.  That meant it was the fifth month not the seventh. I don’t really know how they slipped January and February in because Mother Nature hasn’t changed the […]

This is the month for rites of Passage.  At least that is my take on the month of June.  Most of us recognize that June and Brides go together like peanut butter and jelly.  Marriage is one of the traditional rites. It has always seemed to me that graduation, traditionally High School ones, are a […]

It is May already! When I was much younger the big thing about May was dancing around a May Pole.  It seems that was a really big deal celebrating spring in medieval times.  I am not medieval. It just seems so when my aching bones creak. The local garden club had their version of May […]

This is a month for potpourri. To be sure here it will be meant as a jumble of thoughts for a month that is most important to me. April is, among other things, a most interesting month all in itself. Over the centuries it has jumped around on the yearly calendar from first up to […]

If you have ever written anything you have had writer’s block. If you haven’t, try writing something and you will get it for sure. I work with a computer and word processor rather than an old fashioned typewriter. I didn’t get as much block with those old fashioned things. Mainly because it was so easy […]