A Storybook Life

There’s nothing quite as relaxing, as being blessed with an early morning serenade of song, from the chorus line of finches outside of my bedroom window in early Spring.
It starts as soon as the snow starts to melt, and for some reason, they start warming up around 4am. Not that I’m always up at 4am, [...]

I receive so many requests for ideas, help, how-to, etc., from our readers, that I’ve decided to start sharing some of those requests & my answers, with the hope that I can help many others in the process.
Here is a recent request from a reader:
Hi Pearl,
I am desperately trying to surprise a dear friend of [...]

I thought you could use the extra laugh today
I’d like to introduce you to a funny gal named Chonda Pierce. She has the ability to keep you laughing your head off – or crying your eyes out It was so refreshing to find a “clean” comedian, who also holds strong moral [...]

Yesterday I shared the view from my upstairs home office window, but today I thought I’d take you on a little trip around the country roads that surround our village (she’s called the “Queen Village”, because she is said to be fit for a queen!). We’ve had such wonderful weather, but today the news says [...]

I don’t know how it is in your bit of the world, but in our little forest & surrounding village, the landscape is starting to become radiant with color. It’s almost as if a painter is standing above us, and with quick strokes of his brush, he’s changing everything around us into large swatches of [...]