Author: arlene

When I was still a teenager, with my second fairly serious/regular boyfriend Danny, I received advice from him that just flabbergasted me at the time. […]

It’s Valentine’s Day and that got me reminiscing about Valentine’s Days long past. See this Huff Post blog for an interesting piece on how incredibly […]

Recently I was discussing with friends the relativity of feeling poor while growing up, especially when it came to not being able to get things […]

Normal, predictable, routine, mundane, boring. (WAIT, never boring – my life is too busy to ever utter that word even in jest.) These words are […]

There is so much to write about my husband in Husband Follies that I have decided to collate these little stories that you all enjoy […]

To add to the title: I am still a romanticist and a total sucker for a good love story and so are most of you. […]

I am writing with the most grateful heart on my New Years blog this year. I have recently moved into our new home, built high […]

Well, we just completed the BIG move into our brand new house. It was without a doubt the very hardest move I have ever undertaken. […]

As if I didn’t have enough going on between: my normal work and last minute wedding details (2 1/2 weeks away!) and packing for another […]

I recently published a great, heart-tugging piece about a 63 year old woman who traveled alone from England, not once, not twice, but three times […]