Growing Bolder Community

A few months ago, part of the long slate wall in front of our house collapsed. Ours is a brown cape that sits high along a busy route bisecting our Vermont town. The masonry is such a prominent feature that folks are inclined to describe our property this way: “Oh, that’s the place with all those stone walls.” Either that, or, “Oh, you live in old Judge O’Boyle’s place.” Mind you,...

Today I am basking in the nice, cold air! But that hasn't been the case for the past few weeks. What's a poor boomer girl to do when she has a hot flash and NO air conditioning? About two weeks ago, the air conditioner went on the blink. It just stopped working for no reason at all. Here we are in the midst of a heat wave and it decides it wants to act up! Even my dear, sweet...

Did you know that right now, at this very moment, more birds are nesting than any other time in the year? I actually didn’t know until my neighbors told me about the newest findings made by the Lake Ashton Bird and Nature Club. I just think creatures of nature are fascinating, especially ones that sing! On a past trip, the Lake Aston Bird and Nature Club found two Least Bitterns, but on...

Our neighborhood now consists mostly of strangers on the Internet. We don’t even know the people who live next door to us. What does that say? Does it mean that no one in our real neighborhood wants to be our friends? Hell no...well, maybe...but we do know the folks across the street, and by saying, we know them...I mean, we watch them. We watch their kiddos playing in the front yard, we...

ALICE HORNBAKER “Life After 50” column ON AIR wmkvfm.org and WMKVFM. 89.3 FM/Cincinnati 3-26-12 Hello again. This is Alice Hornbaker for wmkv 89.3 fm and wmkvfm.org streaming around the world in the Internet Mondays and Thursdays at 2:20 p.m. and Fridays at 8:50 a.m. and as a blog on growingbolder.com under blogs/life after 50/ajhornbaker and on Twitter, Facebook and...

My mom and I could not resist a nice Saturday morning of going to yard sales.We would always find a great bargain and a few things we didn't need.One Saturday morning we decided to go to a neighbor's yard sale in the Winter Park Pines subdivision.We had been neighbors for over twenty years and they moved.So we were killing two birds with one stone A visit and a sale. My husband at the time and I...