So fun to have my van featured on NJ Outdoor Adventures! Over 20,000 views in just a couple of days, and some fun comments too. Thank you Patrick – you are a great host and made this fun and easy.

Of African origin, the word MOJO refers to a magical charm or spell.  I believe the arts are the best mojo out there.  My mojo

I rambled through the private roads of Pocono Heights Lake Community searching for a long driveway and a house shaped like the one I remember

Its 22 degrees in Hackettstown and I’m snuggled in.  The furnace is blowing in my big ass van and I’m under a wool blanket that my sister left after one of our adventures. 

I started Storybook Village because most of the time I feel like I live in one. But good stories are not always easy. The best ones

My husband is smart, kind, and tenacious.  He also enjoys beer, wine, and bourbon… in that order.  I’ve joined in often over our nearly 25 years together.  I also make a stink about it sometimes.

I’m going to dance for a bit.  Be grateful that both of my knees work again, that my desire for beauty is still strong, that I can feel the music fully in my body, that I can envision color, that I have had a good meal, and that today… today, I got to paint. 

I had a private painting lesson this week with a fellow who wanted to paint from an old photo of his daughter. The photograph itself presented so many obstacles that copying it would never result in a solid painting.

How do the next 30 years play out, assuming I’m ‘lucky’ enough to live as long as my father did. He died in June from

Our 20 year old boy came for a visit, he did. Playing with his phone, down the steps he slid. Well, tumbled perhaps more accurate