A Wonderful Today Today marks a huge milestone for my daughter. Today is the first day she is officially working as an audiologist. She received her doctorate in May. Friday was the last day of a year-long externship with a major integrated managed care consortium. I am so proud of her. Not only was it a […]
Nice Days Normal Life
I want to write something normal, not something heady, insightful, or politically informed. I don’t want it to be about illness, depression, guns, or require a bunch of research. I have discovered some contentment has slipped in unbeknownst to me during the last couple of decades of life. In the next week my husband and […]
My Annual "My Dad Died on Christmas Day" Post
Somewhere, in a box that is mislabeled, but hopefully still in my house is a picture of my Dad smiling, his eyes all a-twinkle. There aren’t many of those. It was a professional photo from a group photo shoot that the Thorncreek Township Volunteer Firemen arranged. I see that photograph in my mind when I […]
My Life, Tucson, and Autumn
I first visited Tucson in October. It was a gorgeous autumn. Warm, but not too warm. Sunny, but with the long, slanted light of fall, not the pounding sun of summer. I had visited the Flagstaff and Prescott areas previously, and that was fun, but I felt at home here in Tucson. I moved here […]
I Want to Write About Fashion Not Death
I woke up today thinking I would edit my “fashion/non-fashion” post for a GenFab “blog hop.” I came out to the living room, realized my husband had not made coffee after being awakened at 4 a.m by our 5 month old, 75 lb. guard puppy barking out the front window over at the neighbors, wandered […]