Are you what is now referred to as an empty nester? I prefer to say I am done nesting. Empty nest syndrome is a maladjustment to children leaving home and heading out on their own. I prefer to frame the experience as a success. You reared your children and now you are done nesting. Seems […]
Photos and Family History
Spent the day sorting through stuff in order to have a garage sale within a few days, and helping my husband organize the content of some boxes he brought back from being in storage in the state where he grew up. He passed through there when he came back from sabbatical on the East Coast. […]
Bucket List or Dream List
Been playing around with graphics today… one of my favorite things you might have deduced by now. I was playing with the title of this blog when I began thinking about the things I want to accomplish during this next phase of my life. A bucket list if you will. GBE2 had it as a […]
Holiday Juggling Squared Feeds A Writing Experiment
Oh I wish I had time to write the way I would like to write. The coming Holidays, my 21 year old’s graduation from university, her birthday, my husband’s 35 year old daughter, her husband who is adapting to have a prosthetic lower leg, and their twin 1 year old daughters, and her birthday all […]
Discovering the Truth About Christmas Treats
I miss the taste of the sweet treats of the season. I was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes in May of this year, so this is the first Christmas season without sugar. Sigh. I’m lucky though, I can control the disease with diet and exercise and Metformin. I don’t have to do the daily blood […]
My rough notes from Captain Mark Kelly's Talk Tonight.
Waiting for the talk by Cpt. Mark Kelly to start on the U of A campus. The talk is sponsored by the Tucson Festival of Books. My husband is p.o.ed that the Arizona Daily Star had the first 12 rows reserved for “VIPs.” The event was to start at 7:30 p.m. with everyone in their […]