As the weather starts to turn cold and the holiday season appraoches, you may be looking for a gentle book that you can read over the weekend. A Wreath of Snow tells the story of Meg – a school teacher trying to get away from a strained family relationship and Gordon – a newspaperman trying…
I love growing flowers in my backyard. I can’t grow anything but an ivy inside, but my outside flower gardens are usually gorgeous. I have learned alot in the past 15 years. But I can remember moving into our first rental house and looking at the two exisiting beds and feeling very overwhelmed. I had…
Do you love History? Visual Art? Miniatures? Expert craftsmanship? Then you need to visit the Great American Dollhouse Museum in Danville, KY. About 10 years ago I met a lady who had a dream. She wanted to take her love for miniatures, history, story telling, art and dollhouses and create an environment where people could…
What’s your first memory of using a computer? If you asked this question to our kids, they would look at you like you were nuts. They’ve always had computers. But if you’re at least 25, you remember the first time you realized that a computer could open your world to something big. My first memories…
Last weekend my husband and 2 sons took a ‘boys day’ and headed over to Mammoth Cave National Park near Bowling Green, Kentucky. We had both toured the cave as kids but now it was time to share the experience with our sons. Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system in the world and…
This past weekend I stopped in to our local JCPenney store to spend a $10 coupon I received in the mail. My daughter and I were hoping to find at least one or two items on clearance so we could stretch the $10 as far as possible. We were in for quite the fun surprise!…
Sometimes hobbies are just something we do because we love them. But there are some hobbyist who are changing the world and making a difference by pursuing their hobby. Hobbies Make a Difference in the lives of many people. Maybe you know someone like that. (or maybe you, yourself, are doing something noteworthy.) Here’s your…
Have you ever looked at someone who lives in the public eye and thought about where they came from? It’s easy to see someone who has their hair done perfect, successful kids, a seemingly perfect life and forget that even that person had a beginning that might have been rocky. Nowhere but Up is the…