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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

Morning meander and a mishmash of images …

… on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. It was a picture-perfect morning on Saturday, September 11, 2021, mirroring the early a.m. weather on that fateful day exactly 20 years before. I decided to visit Ford Field Park and head to … Continue reading

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You say “goodbye” and I say “hello, hello, hello.”  #Wordless Wednesday  #Ships that pass … 

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I wanna be that gull, er …

… gal! Last November, I was bopping along the Bishop Park boardwalk and, in between photo sessions with the seagulls, I met an interesting person. You may remember I wrote about our encounter, as this petite older woman left me … Continue reading

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Faerie Garden or Gnome Man’s Land? #Wordless Wednesday

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“All gave some, some gave all.”

The above quote in the title of this post is attributed to Korean War veteran and Purple Heart recipient Howard William Osterkamp from Dent, Ohio. In honor of Veteran’s Day this coming Thursday, I am straying from my usual type … Continue reading

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Murder She Wrote.   #Wordless Wednesday  #Counting Crows.  #A murder of crows in the ‘hood.

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“Trick or treat …

… smell my feet … … gimme something good to eat!” The phrase above was the cry uttered by my childhood friends and me, circa late 50s/early 60s, as we crowded together “begging” at homeowners’ doors along Sandmere Place, in … Continue reading

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Grinning like a Cheshire cat.  #Wordless Wednesday  #1,122 of 1,256 mi./1,806 of 2,021 km.

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Autumn: Amble on!

So far, Southeast Michigan’s Autumn weather has had a little something for everyone. Prior to this past Saturday, when we suddenly went straight from Summer-like bliss to brrrrr (completely bypassing brisk), we had enjoyed the warmest October on record; those … Continue reading

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Farm-fresh goodies. #Wordless Wednesday

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