I imagine that some pf you saw this as an opportunity to scream, spit vitriol and pummel others on the subject of illegal immigration and the undocumented. Sorry to disappoint, but this about the amazing birds and insects that come to visit me - and they are always welcome...

I love the little village I live in and Halloween is a much loved holiday around here and also a time with a lot of events that residents of the village are expected to participate in, not least important among them is to be at home, with your porch light on and a big bowl of candy by the door between the hours of 4PM and 6:00PM on the night designated for trick or treating by the...

As we get closer and closer to winter, the leaves are changing colors and falling to the ground and there are very few flowers left to see in the wild or in the yards of my neighbors. I flipped through the many pictures of flowers I took this year and realized how important my flower garden is to me When I retired, I was not sure what I was going to do to "keep busy" - I played a lot of golf,...

Good life advice for us all I ran across this today and it struck a note with me and I felt compelled to share. I am going to look at this quote every morning and try to live my life accordingly

It has been a long time since I posted a discussion - I am not sure from where to begin. I have been away from NT for quite some time because the constant hate speech, crap slinging and shouting down the other side rather than trying to discuss anything became too annoying to endure. I discovered that those same attitudes, actions and processes existed "in the real world" and on other media...

We all want things to be better - for ourselves, for our families, for our friends, for our neighbors, for people everywhere. But where does making things better start? Your thoughts?

The Entitlement Mindset

Don't get me wrong, I love and use all the modern electronic gadgets and am thankful for the creature comforts of the modern age, but there is a part of me that longs for the good old days and simpler times. I miss many things, but having multiple levels of the family in the neighborhood is high on the list, when I was younger my great grandparents, grandparents and our family were within...

We all suffer through "one of those days", but do they ever come in clusters for you? I find that the quality I perceive in "the day" is directly proportional to the company I keep and who I choose to allow to annoy me. As I get older the group that annoys me is shrinking as I simply avoid them.  

Life is not supposed to be easy and it rarely is, but I was raised to believe and still believe that success (personal success) is within our own grasp.

Some people view every challenge, every hardship that they or anyone else encounters as a problem that "someone" preferably not them should solve and that someone else should pay for. Perhaps all that is required is time and effort for people to overcome challenges on their own.