.OPTIONS for a Better World

 This is Betty Bird, made by my partner JB from a piece of driftwood and embellished to her heart's content. JB is finally realizing her...

  Hello from Sebago Lake in Maine. JB and I are here on a five day mini-escape from chores and obligations. Life is finally settling down af...

I currently live in Provincetown, at the very tip of Massachusetts, where the bay and ocean is barely a block from home. Before that, for mo...

Who remembers Thursday 13? This was a time on the blogs when every Thursday, artists, writers, photographers, nature lovers, and gentle chat...

January 24 Provincetown MA Janet and I have decided to start our road trip today, a day early, even if all we do is drive thirty minutes to ...

    Neither of us remembers how we made the decision to take a road trip. Most likely we were complaining about winter temperatures and slip...

  This is the first chapter of a nine week cross country road trip JB and I took in 2020, just before the pandemic began.  God only knows wh...

The last few months have been a whirlwind. Just as my favorite cousin was diagnosed with terminal cancer, my 105 year old Godmother, who liv...

 Initially I decided to self-publish both my books after learning that it would be up to me to market and promote them anyway, with little i...

Here's JB waving from our local beach, our dog Mattie beside her, at low tide, last summer, one of my favorite photos of all time. We ar...

 I enclosed this reminder in our holiday cards last year, and this year I'm again reminded that the Christmas season and beginning of a ...

 Where have I been? For starts, I haven't been able to access my photos. Just now, I figured out where they've been hidden.  I'v...

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