My Siblings Mom's Family: The Bergs Dad's Family: The Stringams My Family In our corner of the world, in winter, the nights are ve...

Clockwise from right: Aly (Hired man's son), Anita, Blair, and Me - in my little gold beauty. It wasn't often that we kids were able...

A repost of my favourite Christmas shopping story. Red Mittens - not just for hands any more! We were shopping. I will admit, here, that sho...

  She was supposed to be weeding the garden. But the warm afternoon sun beckoned and, let’s face it, she had a short attention span. So Go...

My daughter works in theatre, A carpenter. It’s true. She’s very good at what she does, Is always in demand because, You seldom see ...

  It started like so many of our ‘adventures’. Quietly. With me doing something normal, like putting a folded shirt in the laundry basket re...

  I love cats, you know I do, They’re smart. And entertaining, too, Sometimes, they just don’t think things through, Or fail when tryi...

Hmmm . . . maybe we can make it  work ... The Stringam ranch was twenty miles from the nearest bus route. But it still managed to attract a ...

  We moved away from kith and kin in 1983, ‘Twas not an easy time for us, I know you will agree… Cause our traditions then depended on t...