Returning with the Spring

I have been away from my writing space for ages! Alas, it seems everyone struggles with time management at some point in their life, and for the past year or so, that was me! I do have a reasonable excuse though, as I was taking an online course to get my diploma in copywriting, which […]

Steel Mill Ghosts Along the Monongahela

We had some lovely weather this past spring, after a rather mild winter. I took advantage of this and started going out for walks on my lunch break. It is a nice way to break up the day (read: get out of the office!) and get some exercise. If you cross the Smithfield bridge coming […]

Frick Museum and Park

There are so many wonderful museums in the Pittsburgh area, so I relish at the chance of being able to visit any of them. For being a smaller city (population ca. 300,000) Pittsburgh boasts the cultural (and athletic) abundance of a first tier city. A lot of that has to do with our past and […]

The Fort Pitt Museum

One of the many pleasures of working downtown in an old city such as Pittsburgh, is that I am never far from history, in fact, I brush up against it daily. In this case, I didn’t need to venture far, as the museum encompassing what was once the British, and before that French, Fort Pitt […]

The Start of Winter, and a Loss

My beloved cat of 7 years, Frodo, had to leave this world on December 18, 2015, only a few days before the Winter Solstice. She was very sick with cancer and had fought bravely for 6 months. She didn’t want to fight anymore, she decided she wanted to rest instead. We helped her leave this world peacefully and […]

Autumn

I find myself longing for crisp autumn days and chilly fall nights no matter what part of the seasonal calendar I happen to find myself in, and when it finally gets here, I relish each day (and evening, and night). I find it inspiring weather to write with (and about), as it truly is Nature’s last show before […]

Somerset County, PA – Baronvale Covered Bridge & Kings Covered Bridge

This cabin, we call it our White Cabin, is in rural southwestern PA and was originally built in 1889 as a one-room school house, and it has been in my family since the 1950s. It was remodeled into a cabin and has served as our summer retreat from Pittsburgh for years. It holds a precious place in […]

Crows silently fly past the dawn – lit moon. Hanging in the purple, grey, pinkish sky. Clouds of breath disperse into the ice air. Wind blows hard a moment, quiet still the next. A chill passes, a memory recall’d, The time before beginning, tis the wall. This starts Forever, and eternity Awaits. Pay no […]

Summer

the jewelweeds blow in the hazy, hanging air – otherwise the verdant scene is still. the slow drips of the earlier drenching rain off my gutter; plants intact. it smells of a damp, warm, old and familiar place that only I can remember – stone stairs lead me there. there the summers flew by – […]

Bon nuit

Here I am, ready to venture off into the mountains…