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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

I’d like a redo of Summer please.

Summer has really gotten on my  nerves and I wish we could just rewind to Memorial Day weekend and give it another go.  I’ve spared you my most-recent weather whining and instead grumbled to myself, or to other Summer 2018 … Continue reading

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Trail mix.

I really look forward to my weekend excursions, when I can expand my horizons to explore a little more, take extra pictures, and I don’t have to be watching the clock to be back home for work.  So, yesterday I … Continue reading

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It’s been feeling Fallish …

… for a couple of days anyway.  It’s not like the frost is on the pumpkin, or anything quite that dramatic, but the pumpkin goodies are on the store shelves and Starbucks is offering up its pumpkin latte, which tells … Continue reading

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Tuesday Musings.

It’s a “pools and Popsicles” kind of day with sultry temps that soared to a “real feel” in the mid-90s.  I keep reminding myself that back in the Wintertime I promised I would not whine about the weather once those … Continue reading

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With some pep in my step, I explored the “naturehood”

It was Day #2 of beautiful Fall-like weather.  I know I embarked on my walk with some added pep in my step once I encountered that refreshing air.  And today, for the first time in ages, the sun was shining … Continue reading

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Tuesday Musings

I thought I’d dust off “Tuesday Musings” as it’s been about a month since I last mused, though I think, with all the rain we’ve had so far today, “mud” and not “dust” would more likely be the key word … Continue reading

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Got peanuts for me?

I decided to defer this post about nuts, and my pals that gobble them up, to today because I wanted to crow about my long-awaited goldfinch and heron finds.  Both those birds have been so elusive in the past, that … Continue reading

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Birds of a feather …

I’ve decided the balance of this Summer, I won’t make weekend excursion plans in advance, since rain keeps intruding.  Even though we’ve been blessed with about four weekends in a row with no rain, what is problematic are the rainy … Continue reading

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Vintage vignettes.

I’ve been hunkered down in the house today.  It’s been raining off and on all day, but so far the storms have stayed at bay.  Because of the weather, I missed another walk this morning and tomorrow morning is looking … Continue reading

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Remembrances …

It was another sweltering morning, with heat and humidity to the hilt and temps which would soar to 90 degrees by late afternoon.  I did my walk early, but still felt my shirt sticking to me as I trudged home, … Continue reading

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