Skyline Drive in Virginia on a sunny winter day. The trails were too slushy so we parked and walked right down the drive. Being winter, there were hardly any cars so it was peacefully quiet. Bare tree branches were coated with ice and the sun made all the trees sparkle. As the ice melted, pieces broke off and made a beautiful tinkling sound as they ( Read more... )

On our first date I looked across the table at my future husband and thought "this is a good man, a man who knows how to treat a woman, this man is intelligent, gentle and funny. I want him in my life."  I was mature enough to know that I deserved this. I'm know I wouldn't have appreciated him when I was younger. Because he was much older than me ( Read more... )

Yes.

Mrs. Leeds was not looking forward to the birth of her thirteenth baby. She gave birth on a stormy night deep in the pinelands of southern New Jersey. She screamed and fainted when she saw her baby, born with horns, hoofs and a tail. He was kept locked in the basement for some time until he escaped into the pinelands, where many have seen him. He ( Read more... )

Do not vote for oil men, old men or Republicans.

It would have to be my father. I would take him to the best Jersey diner around. I would bring my lap top and play a slide show of his grandaughter and her wonderful husband, and their beautiful new baby. He would love that.

And, if I could be allowed, I would want just a few minutes with my late husband so I could hold him and kiss him and tell ( Read more... )

My parents moved to Atlantic City after the War and found me under a cabbage leaf in the middle of the boardwalk. Or so they told me. What a cabbage was doing growing on the boardwalk in February I never did find out.

It was a joy growing up in Atlantic City. Summer afternoons were spent at the beach playing with the neighborhood kids. Whichever ( Read more... )

When someone says something stupid to me I get an offended look on my face and say "excuse me???".
 

Mmmmmmmmmm. Chocolate. Chocolate for romance, chocolate when I'm sad, chocolate to celebrate. Chocolate is my friend.