Hope Holland

I was thinking about old times today because I found some Reminisce magazines that a friend gave me. I keep meaning to put them in the trash but I jus

Hi, there. Just in case anyone remembers me, I am the misguided person who was last seen taking pictures of my daffodils on the lawn.

Yes, they are all

My daffodils are up now, a whole line of them along the front of the house. These aren't the big dignified daffodils though just a group of lesser ones that

Spring is just around the corner — barring a snow storm or two.

Just because we have been lucky so far don't think it can't happen. My best bet,

A couple of weeks ago I was talking to a friend about barn rats. Not the four-legged kind of barn rat that eats holes in the feed bags, the two-legged human

I rarely go to the huge gatherings of horse folks. It is not that I am not interested in what is going on out there, but I just get antsy around a lot of peo

Every year when it is time to start riding again I think about doing this little pitch for sanity and most years I resist it — mainly because few peopl

I am writing this on Tuesday, and after a small but very nasty cold snap it looks like we might get some not-so-dismal weather for the next couple of weeks.<

Winter can be a cruel time of year for those who are older or ill.

It seems that the cold darkness steals good folks away from us at an increased rate

It's funny what you will see if you look beyond the picture.

For instance, I found out from an old National Geographic magazine that man and do

By my calendar, and I hope yours too, Christmas is going to fall on Sunday this year. I am a great believer in Christmas, both the celebration and the reason

It is amazing what you can learn even when you have achieved a relative ripe old age.

The thing that I have recently learned is connected to the fact t

We are finally being promised some actual cold weather by the weather forecasters. I say this not with dread, but with a feeling of relief.

It is not t

One of the best things about writing this column, or anything as a matter of fact, is researching your bright little ideas. My idea for this week came from t

I don't know if all of you are as tired as I am of being inundated with the Black Friday sales, but I am fast reaching my breaking point with all of it. So I

It is hard to believe that Thanksgiving week is upon us.

This has been a busy year for me I know but s

Once again, our country has survived an election — hard fought on both sides — a little dirty pool to be sure here and there, yet, here we are: l

I keep hearing about older people who are settling down to a life of retrospective thought.

I don't know who writes that stuff — most of the peop

The weather persons are telling us that there is an El Nina hanging off the left coast. What this means for us is the possibility that we are in for a seriou

Anyone who has read this column for a while — and thankfully there are those of you who have — knows that I stand firmly in the ranks of the old

A long time ago when things were just getting bad I recall saying that people should watch out for their neighbors. This was not a new thought for me becaus

Note to self: unless you actually have eyes on the dog it is not a wise idea to just yell around a blind corner, "Bentley! Get out of that!"

Further no

I don't usually do restaurant accolades in this column, but some things need to be addressed. I have become so used to being part of a "customer herd" at mos

It is hard to believe with the heat and humidity the way that it has been, but it is getting near to the end of September.

In fact, when you read this,

Before I begin, let me first say I do understand that in this day and age diversity rules, and that everything is taken personally by everyone.

Uniform

As I sit here on early Wednesday morning moaning at the aspect of another bout of miserable hot weather and wondering about the advisability of moving back

I suppose that, being a writer, I am what could easily be called finicky about word usage. I like words to do the work that they are supposed to do, explaini