What kind of home do you live in / what kind of area [city, country, urban...]?

“A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”

I live in a suburban town just south of Detroit called Wyandotte. Neighbors homes are near mine, but we're a close neighborhood. We all know each others names and help each other when needed. The type of home I live in is what one might consider a farm style house; it was built in 1906. We've...

How weird are your pets?

I have a dog named Rocky. He is an American Pit Bull Terrier (APBT) and about a year and a half old; it's an estimate because he's a rescue. I also have a 5 year old cat named Palooza; she's a rescue too, but she was born in the home of one of the rescue employees so we know her age....

What's your favorite automobile?

For me, I can't possibly pick just one vehicle for my favorite. Now, I will say that I prefer the styling of the previous generations. It seems that every modern vehicle I actually like or am attracted to for one reason or another, it's discontinued. That's pretty frustrating. One of my...

End of life sadness

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do...”

Yes, she is 96. Yes, she lost her husband a little over 3 years ago. My neighbors Bob and Donna became family. I've been helping Donna's daughter with some of the stuff most people struggle with doing. The end of life stuff is sad. And I don't care what anyone else believes, I believe that...

What are some of your favorite smells? Guess we could include sounds too...

“Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your...”

There's a lot of scents that I love; all for different reasons. The smell of tar on a spring morning reminds me of the home I lived in until the age of 8. The city would spray tar on the gravel road in front of my house every spring to help keep the dust down and gravel in place. The smell of a...

Something other than pandemic, political, or religion...

No, this has nothing to do with photography either. A conversation the other day sparked some thoughts. How many of you plan or have planned the major events or circumstances in your lives? Let me explain a little... the conversation revolved around careers and what got us to the point of...

Things that make me go GRRRRRRRRRRRR

“...@ 10:45 this morning we've stopped work on the car...”

My Pontiac Firebird is nearly finished and for the last couple things, my husband and I decided to take it to a local restoration shop to button up those things. It cost me $95 to get it towed to the place. We explained the couple things we wanted done and what had been done already. Everything...

The World of Insanity 2020

“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?...”

The world is completely insane right now. Politics and the alleged agendas. The protests, BLM movement, riots, looting, hate.... The stupid ass arguments between people over it all is just nuts. People are losing long time friends and writing off family over something they’re not even a part of,...

Why many societies still expect women to be subservient to men and the connotations in relation to religion / religious belief:

“Male and female roles are therefore much differentiated and also unbalanced in the world religions. The influence of women on the formation of...”

     Let me just start off by saying that my family up to the generation before me were baptized and raised Catholic. I was, according to my mother, “baptized” by my great-grandmother, because my mother and father didn’t “belong” to any church  parish and wouldn’t allow them to get me baptized...

My Rocky - the American Pit Bull Terrier

Meet Rocky. He's my first puppy ever. He's a rescue. He was found in Detroit, abandoned. He couldn't have been there for too horribly long because he wasn't too horribly underweight and overall he was healthy. He's a good puppy. He's very clingy, but definitely understandable.