Live the year with thankfulness, gratitude, respect, patience, charity, and kindness; don’t forget to laugh and smile often, as they are infectious. Shout-out: Happy 14th Birthday to our grandson, John Liam! You make the world a better place! I enjoy many activities, such as writing, reading, blogging, cooking, and gardening. However, the one that brings… Continue reading

Live the year with thankfulness, gratitude, respect, patience, charity, and kindness; don’t forget to laugh and smile often, as they are infectious. I have been to many places, but I have never been to Nittany Mountain, the home of Penn State Univ., and the Nittany Lions football game. Some of my early ancestors who came… Continue reading

Live the year with thankfulness, gratitude, respect, patience, charity, and kindness; don’t forget to laugh and smile often, as they are infectious. Have a catch with the kids and grandkids, Travel, Movies, dine out, play my guitar, and read a good book. Point to Ponder: It doesn’t matter so much what you like to do… Continue reading

Live the year with thankfulness, gratitude, respect, patience, charity, and kindness; don’t forget to laugh and smile often, as they are infectious. Pets come in all shapes, sizes, species of almost every kind, but manners and obedience are traits admired in all species of animals. Continue reading

Live the year with thankfulness, gratitude, respect, patience, charity, and kindness; don’t forget to laugh and smile often, as they are infectious. Meaning: Daniel is an old biblical Hebrew name which has several interpretations in meaning.” God is my Judge, God Rules Me, Judge of God Etymology: From (1) the verb in written in Hebrew,… Continue reading

Live the year with thankfulness, gratitude, respect, patience, charity, and kindness; don’t forget to laugh and smile often, as they are infectious. I have always been fascinated by the life of Rick Steves, who gets paid to video and document his travels throughout Europe. He explores both major cities and small, off-the-beaten-path towns that offer… Continue reading

Be Thankful, grateful, patient, charitable, kind, and don’t forget to smile, as it’s infectious. This is an easy one for me. Video games, social media, and other abused media outlets. Though enticing and exciting, they’re too much like those over-advertised sweet cereals of our youth, or like looking into a bakery case loaded with cakes,… Continue reading

Live the year with thankfulness, gratitude, respect, patience, charity, and kindness; don’t forget to laugh and smile often, as they are infectious. Too many to count. However, this past weekend, 1/10/26, our children and grandchildren threw us a surprise 50th Wedding Anniversary and vow renewal bash. They have been planning for the better part of… Continue reading