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

Greetings and salutations and best witches to all!

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Linda Schaub

Well, Halloween is finally here, complete with its own very real weather special effects. You just can’t make this stuff up. There are predictions of thunderstorms and howling winds gusting to 45 mph for the evening hours – well, you … Continue reading →

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Do you have the Halloween heebie-jeebies?

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Linda Schaub

It’s Halloween Eve, so what an ideal time to venture into the occult just a tad. Every year, mention is made by the news media of the 1938 CBS broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” which was Orson Welles’ … Continue reading →

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Candy is dandy, but …

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Linda Schaub

… it causes cavities. How’s your Halloween candy stash holding up? Be honest and raise your hand if you had to go out and buy more goodies for the ghouls and goblins that will be arriving at your house two … Continue reading →

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“Who was that masked man, anyway?”

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Linda Schaub

Now there’s just a handful of days to get your Halloween duds ready. The costume stores were probably busy this past weekend with all the house parties. Growing up I heard the story told and re-told about my stint as … Continue reading →

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Hail to the Great Pumpkin.

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Linda Schaub

This morning was the first substantial walk I got in this week. While it wasn’t a perfect Fall Day, at least the sun was shining. I was surprised there weren’t more leaves on the ground after Saturday’s blustery weather, but … Continue reading →

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Whoa – hold onto your hat!!!

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Linda Schaub

Today’s blustery and beyond-brisk temps remind me that the prediction by the Farmers’ Almanac of a cold and snowy Winter here in the Midwest sounds pretty darn credible. Yesterday, the weathermen kept touting 40 mph wind gusts and plummeting temps … Continue reading →

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It’s definitely warm and woolly sweater weather!

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Linda Schaub

This morning was brutal indeed. I shut the outside water off last weekend and it appears not a moment too soon with very low temps and a wind chill of 27 degrees this morning! It is much, much too soon … Continue reading →

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A smile is a frown turned upside down.

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Linda Schaub

To paraphrase a quote often attributed to Mark Twain, i.e. “golf is a good walk spoiled”, a visit to the dentist took a bite out of a long walk this a.m. and I only mustered 2 ½ miles. I go … Continue reading →

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Dreary and drizzling.

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Linda Schaub

WWJ’s meteorologist defined today as “just plain yucky” throwing away more scientific terminology to describe our dismal weather. It’s not even “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”; it is just plain soggy and wet. The weather put a kibosh on … Continue reading →

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Quit houndin’ me!

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Linda Schaub

Depending on what trek I take when I walk, I pass a corner yard with several huge signs with the caveat “beware of dog” yet, as the days, weeks and months passed, I’d yet to see or hear this beast. … Continue reading →

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