Category: Rose’s Blog

    ​Beyond a stone wall, The creek and the bridge, the first Red leaves of autumn. ​My father’s extended family, the Murdocks and the

  ​Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines

  ​Wisdom has built her house… Yes, she has spread her table. She calls from the heights out over the city: “Come, eat of my

  The full moon lingers Over St. Peter’s on a Warm summer morning. ​At last we have arrived in Rome. Located on the Tiber River

  ​Glossy fat pigeons On the Rialto Bridge Peck at biscotti crumbs. ​The golden city of Venice sparkles with sunlight dancing on the blue Adriatic,

  Someone asked me recently which was my favorite of all the places my husband and I have visited over the years. It did not

  ​San Diego is one of my favorite cities. It has so many virtues, it’s not easy to name them all. Weather may be the

  Hawaii has a long-standing tradition of throwing huge parties to celebrate the first-year anniversary of a baby’s birth. A celebration of this kind is

  ​For nearly sixty years, Cuba, a very close neighbor of the United States, has been a mysterious forbidden island which no American has been

  On the dark, glassy Autumn sea, the ship proceeds Toward Nova Scotia.  In elementary school, geography was my favorite subject. I loved maps and