As we continue on our way south from Maryland, passing through Virginia, and then into North Carolina, signs boasting of the availability of boiled peanuts appear. Hmmm? What are these? Boiled peanuts are a traditional southern snack. These are apparently available in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. In checking the recipes online,…
Author: Carol Ann Heath, Ed.D.
The Use of Traveling
“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” Samuel Johnson The morning air is crisp, 32 degrees, and the skies are clear with the first of the Snow Geese flying across the Assawoman Bay in Ocean City. We are packed…
My Blog 2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 350 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…
You Choose
This poem is about life….a woman’s life yet also a man’s. “ You Chose” You chose. You chose. You chose. You chose to give away your love. You chose to have a broken heart. You chose to give up. You chose to hang on. You chose to react. You chose to feel insecure. You chose…
The Farmers’ Market
Suddenly the car swerved to the right, making a sharp turn onto a gravel lot with about a dozen mini-gazebos in a two-sided rectangle. The sign proclaimed, Farmers’ Market, open 8 to 12 Mondays and Fridays. Since I live in a coastal area with large inland farming and chicken industries, I wasn’t really expecting much. …
Who Am I and Why Am I Blogging?
Literally, I am a goal setter, life-liver, and a person with a simple philosophy — “bloom where you are planted!” At this point in my life, I find myself retired, living in an ocean resort, becoming a grandparent for the second time, and feeling transitional. I was a professional, academic book writer, adjunct professor, mother…
Understanding Medicare and the “Observation” Admission
This is a very important caution about passive consumption of health care recommended by a doctor. I just returned home from an “observation” admission which was very unclear to me. I was being kept in the hospital pending a decision about a critical surgery after I experienced a spinal bleed. I was admitted on a…
The Struggle of Writing according to Sylvia Plath
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” Sylvia Plath
Lovely Lucerne, Switzerland
The first thing you look for when arriving from Zürich into the Swiss resort of Lucerne are the views of the mountains. While the backdrop of the Alps was not disappointing, the beauty of the setting along the river in historic Old Town was enchanting. We stayed in the Hotel Flora in Lucerne. We checked…
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