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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub

Sherbet-colored fleurs at Memorial Park. #Wordless Wednesday #Trumpet Vine and Daylilies

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The last stop on my slow roll through 1976.

With this very long post, I have finally exhausted my long trip down Memory Lane circa 1976. First, I wrote about my mom’s 50th birthday and how my grandmother and Aunt Frances took the bus from Toronto for a surprise … Continue reading

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This shutterbug asks: why does this goose look bug-eyed? #Wordless Wednesday #Saw a ghost, Nessie?

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Oh boy, Koi!

Summer is fading fast! I mean, how the heck did we get to Labor Day weekend already? Wasn’t it just Memorial Day, the unofficial gateway to Summer and now we’re at the unofficial gateway to Fall? Not that Summer wasn’t … Continue reading

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House Sparrow embedded in a Cup Plant. #Wordless Wednesday

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Soaring!

Back in July everything was soaring! Let’s just say that July in Southeast Michigan was truly nothin’ special. Like many of you across the U.S., we were subject to that heat dome that made us miserable the tail end of … Continue reading

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Sneakin’ a peek! #Wordless Wednesday #P.S. – I did not stick my tongue out at her!

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Musings re: Metropark meetups.

Originally, I planned to entitle this post “Mayfly Mayhem” but I decided perhaps that was a poor choice and, besides, the mayhem would be momentary, only as to those creepy-looking, featherweight creatures called Mayflies and/or Fishflies. Besides, it wasn’t like … Continue reading

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Blue skies smiling at me. #Wordless Wednesday #Reflection perfection #The smoke took a hike – so did I.

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It was a good shadow day!

“Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  For many years, while walking on a sunny day, I’d take a photo of my shadow and pronounce it “a good shadow … Continue reading

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