Author Archives: Linda Schaub

About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each and every post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things I see on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, and 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 that day. I respect and appreciate nature and my interaction 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. My career has been in the legal field and I have been a legal secretary for four decades, primarily working in downtown Detroit, and now working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in print journalism in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met and shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing once again in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy – hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub

Maybe my shortest post ever?

Michigan had its worst ice storm in 50 years … I lost my internet sometime in the early morning hours of Thursday. It came back last night after I went to bed … I am going to try and catch … Continue reading

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Dempsey the Downy Woodpecker orders from GRUBHUB. #Wordless Wednesday #Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) 2023 stats

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Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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Dempsey the Downy Woodpecker orders from GRUBHUB. #Wordless Wednesday #Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) 2023 stats

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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“All Creatures Great and Small” …

… is a PBS miniseries about Dr. Alf Wight’s trials and tribulations as a country veterinarian in the 1930s – 1950s in the Dales of Yorkshire, England. Dr. Wight, who wrote under the pen name James Herriot, authored eight books … Continue reading

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Precocious Parker plays peekaboo. #Wordless Wednesday #Where did you hide my valentine Linda?

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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This labor of love …

… made its debut one decade ago, on February 11, 2013, so it is time for me to EMBRACE it with this post. What better time to choose to write about your PASSION and labor of LOVE, than in conjunction … Continue reading

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Sunday Strolling. #Wordless Wednesday #Great Blue Heron at Lake Erie Metropark

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) and this song to tell the story.

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Beating the red, white and boom!

First, before I begin to weave my tale about a Sunday stroll at Lake Erie Metropark on July 3rd, it is already the first post of the new month … time to debut the February 2023 calendar page as evidenced … Continue reading

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Nature bee amazing sometimes. #Wordless Wednesday #Hmm – is that bee waving at me?

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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As the crow flies …

… it was a mere eight miles from my last stop at Oakwoods Metropark in the city of New Boston, to Lower Huron Metropark in Belleville. I tootled along a country road and suddenly I was there, having just barely … Continue reading

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