Posts by Annis

When you are all burnt up from living your life too strenuously, there is nothing on earth that makes you feel better than just plain[…]

I have been getting a “Daily Quaker Message” recently in my email, as I like to have a spiritual idea to start my day with[…]

I found two books which demonstrate that a whole lot more than we have known about is going on to restore ecosystems and install solar[…]

“How do I get rid of my chipmunks,” a member of my neighborhood email feed keeps asking, “They are driving me crazy!” Mice yes, Red[…]

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Advanced technological equipment deployed by highly trained military pilots may account for the fact that there are many more reported sightings of[…]

When I asked for Cory Booker’s Stand for my birthday this year, I thought it would be a stirring political autobiography by a Senator whose[…]

May 7 is the day that my dear husband Henry died, after 40 years of marriage. Love, it turns out, is eternal: after all of[…]

I asked my daughters for a couple of books this year – Seneca’s Letters and Cory Booker’s Stand–and happily received them along with a surprise[…]

I ran across a British writer, Gabriella Bennett, who gets her jollies out of making lists – not just the “what I have to do[…]

The nights in Minneapolis this winter were long, and cold and pitch black, with wind chills sometimes 20 degrees below zero and snow often falling[…]