Mr. Micawber's Recipe for Happiness

I really struggle with indecision these days. I seem to spend hours - precious hours that really can't be spared - waffling over the simplest things. Am I losing my mind, or is it all just part of the general misery that is perimenopause? (No need to...

How can the year be so far advanced? And what happened to Spring? Here in Wisconsin, we seem to have leapfrogged into Summer, complete with warm weather, thunderstorms, and intermittent torrential rains. The trees are fully leafed out, their once-myriad...

...is nearly over; after a week of rain and wind, these darling buds of May have mostly fallen from the trees. But on last Sunday's ride, the countryside was full of their beauty:
Yellow torches of winter cress were lighting up the verges...
As were dandelions, those cheery harbingers of sunshine to come:...

T.S. Eliot was right about April; this month has been cruel indeed. My sister has been very ill, suffering through multiple surgeries and a nightmarish series of complications that kept her in the hospital for weeks. A few days after she was released...