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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

Wingin’ it and missed the mark! #Wordless Wednesday #Ring-billed Seagull

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

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Reflecting on 2025 while steppin’ bravely into 2026.

I was in a hurry for 2025 to end … I mean, couldn’t it just flit away quietly like a delicate dragonfly?  Nope – it kept dragging on and on. It wasn’t just our wobbly weather that haunted me, (a/k/a … Continue reading

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It’s New Year’s Eve. #Wordless Wednesday #Spend time with family and friends, BUT …

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

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Some mirth and merriment for you. 

When I began this blog nearly 13 years ago, just before “launch time” I had second thoughts about whether I would have enough whimsical/quirky items to sustain the whimsy portion of my blog title “Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy”. I … Continue reading

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Christmas PUPapalooza. #Wordless Wednesday. #Happy HOWLidays!

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story. Click away, a song here; a slideshow below.

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The Gifts of Christmas Past.

Imagine, if you will, a film reel in your mind, spinning merrily around, giving you glimpses of every Christmas Day in your life to date.  So, would that film be popcorn-worthy, perhaps a bucketful, oozing with hot butter and sprinkled … Continue reading

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Mr. & Mrs. Cardinal (and a pal) partake of peanuts at the Park. #Wordless Wednesday #A favorite vintage ornament.

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

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Lean, mean and green.

We’re right in the thick of it … the ambience and magic of the holiday season that is.  Tonight Hanukkah begins and now there are merely eleven more sleeps until Santa arrives.  Bakers are bustling, mail carriers are hustling, all … Continue reading

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Which way is Santa Claus? #Wordless Wednesday #Remember those days?

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

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When there’s wicked wind, wildflowers and …

… familiar feathery and leathery friends.  On the middle day of the long Memorial Day weekend, I did some Sunday strolling at Lake Erie Metropark.  I’d already visited this venue several times since Spring had emerged after a too-long Winter.  … Continue reading

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