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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

[F]All aflutter.

Well, the torrential rain finally ended so the ark-building project could be abandoned, but then the wind started gusting with a vengeance. It was a chilly breeze too, not the tropical stuff that we got used to the last week … Continue reading

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“Into each life some rain must fall”

My shoes are getting a well-deserved break today as my walk was interrupted by rain – the walk has to happen in the morning or I don’t go. Today promises to be an all-day rain. So, I’m sitting here writing … Continue reading

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Oktoberfest – not your wurst nightmare!

What a soggy start to this morning, with thunder boomers and torrential rain and more of that ugly weather looming large. Sigh. Well at least the weather is not as bad as other parts of the country where they have … Continue reading

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Reconnect and recollect.

Breaker-breaker!!! Today is “National CB Radio Day” – well that’s a big 10-4. It is also the day where many of my former high school classmates will be part of a convoy headed to Arnaldo’s Banquet Hall to attend our … Continue reading

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FALLing leaves …

Wondering and walking often go hand in hand for me. I love the solitariness of walking without a care in the world, sometime pondering life and sometimes just drinking it all in. “It” would be nature or perhaps people-watching sometimes … Continue reading

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Fall is a “Foodies” favorite time.

Is “foodie” still one of those trending words, like “selfie”? I originally thought it applied only to cooks, but I think it fits the general description of anyone who likes to eat. I don’t think you have to be a … Continue reading

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Welcome to Aug-tober!!

I wish I had been clever enough to coin today’s weather word “Aug-tober” to describe how it is feeling like August in October, but that was how our WWJ meteorologist handily defined our first day of this new month. The … Continue reading

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‘Tis the season …

We’re ready to turn the calendar page to October and Michiganders are still hoppin’ and boppin’ to the orange barrel polka out there. In our neck of the woods, thankfully, the final phase of the Fort Street construction will wrap … Continue reading

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Cozying up to the radio … I’m all ears.

Yesterday, all the weather people predicted overnight rain lasting into the early morning hours so I didn’t set the alarm figuring I’d sleep in and rest on my laurels. Of course I regretted the extended slumber when the rain didn’t … Continue reading

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Sweet success.

An absolutely perfect Fall day! I started my morning with a trek to Council Point Park, then walked to Wyandotte toward the river, and finally reluctantly headed home rather than risk shin splints. I walked a total of five miles … Continue reading

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