Author Archives: Linda Schaub

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

Super-Sized Phenomenons in 2014.

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Linda Schaub

These days, it’s not just fries and soda that are super-sized! Well, yesterday I wanted to write about Sunday’s Super Moon and my walk on Monday morning, however, my boss, who was wending his way back from the Upper Peninsula, … Continue reading →

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Woodn’t it be nice …?

Posted on August 10, 2014 by Linda Schaub

Music has the ability to take you back to another time and place … so also would this wooden tree house. The Beach Boys are back in town … they are at Freedom Hill in Sterling Heights tonight. Back in … Continue reading →

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Flora and fauna and more fabulous weather …

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Linda Schaub

It dawned bright and beautiful again and I was happy to be blessed with another great walking day. I ate breakfast and was headed out the door by 7:30 a.m., donned in lightweight clothes, as well as blinders, as I … Continue reading →

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I’ve got a bee in my bonnet … er bun.

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Linda Schaub

I left as soon as the sun was up as I aimed to make a five-mile trek today. I had to divvy up my morning between a pleasurable walk followed by long-overdue yard work. When I left the house, the … Continue reading →

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Birdies and bicycles.

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Linda Schaub

I returned to Council Point Park this morning after an absence of over a week. I missed going there. Though the trip to the River is nice, I do enjoy my escape to the little nature nook stuck in the … Continue reading →

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Petal potpourri, biscuits and burnt toast …

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Linda Schaub

My boss left for the U.P. today, a trip that will take him some seven or eight hours, and nearly 500 miles one way to reach his destination. Whew! Well, that’s more mileage than I’d accumulate on my car in … Continue reading →

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It was buggy and muggy on this Monday morn.

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Linda Schaub

I left early enough to head down to the foot of Emmons and Wyandotte to catch a glimpse of the Detroit River. I figured I’d beat that train that comes through around 8:20 or so … and I did. The … Continue reading →

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Your roving reporter …

Posted on August 3, 2014 by Linda Schaub

… has not been roving anywhere interesting the past couple of days. I walked and did errands on Friday morning which accounted for about two miles, and yesterday I spent the morning meandering around the aisles of Meijer, racking up … Continue reading →

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Peck, pull, slurp, burp …

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Linda Schaub

… then bop on over to a nearby puddle to gulp down some cool rainwater, so that one may feast happily upon another hapless worm. Well MY early morning was far more appetizing than the details recited above – for … Continue reading →

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Mittens, a muffler and a munchkin.

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Linda Schaub

Well, how often can you say you took a brisk walk on a crisp morning in the tail end of July? I put the furnace on before I went to bed last night, but I nudged the thermostat up this … Continue reading →

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