Breaking News: Jennifer Discovers Body Butter

Direct from the personal care aisle at Walmart to my vanity at home comes a moisturizing cream that everyone else probably already discovered long ago: body butter. Thick, creamy—and yes, butter-like—this marvelous stuff jumped into my shopping cart the other day and...

Year of the Salad

I’m not sure what 2021 is going to bring, but one thing I am declaring right now:  2021 is the Year of the Salad in my household.   My one and only goal this year is to eat a minimum of four salads a week.  This may be the most daunting goal I’ve ever...

My Frozen Little Dude

I’m a summer girl through and through, but even I have to appreciate the magical aspects of a wintry world when everything appears to be encased in glass.  Here is my “little dude,” a garden statue I planted alongside a path near my house a couple of...

A Melancholy Chore: Packing up Christmas

 A stack of plastic storage boxes are positioned near my Christmas tree.  I’ve just lugged them up from the basement, and now, out of breath, I find that I don’t have the heart to open them.  It’s time to put all of the Christmas decorations away. ...

Introducing…Pics and Days

…and now I’m back to where I started.Circa 19xx began as a blog, and in those early days I was faithful in posting weekly entries.  Over time, though, as tends to happen, my posts became irregular, and then dropped quietly off my calendar.  I spent more...