GBE 2 theme for the week is “upset.”. NaBloPoMo theme for the month is “relative.” I am playing with this juxtaposition because I really, really, really believe that attitude is just a matter of perspective. I mean how can you be upset if up is relative? The view from free fall can be liberating. […]
Moving Zilla to Minneapolis – Trip Synopsis
Trip Preparation First we had to work on her warm weather attire. These woolen necessities were purchased for her in the L.L. Bean flagship store in Maine during Hubby’s Fall 2011 Road Trip. And to get her acquainted with the basics of living far away from parents in her own home. Here she reads […]
The First Day of What I've Worked to Achieve
Transitions are difficult for me to demarcate. I’ve been working on launching a second, or third, or fourth career, depending upon how you look at the journey that is my life, in which personal constraints are folded into the mix in a way that enhances my ability to succeed. Success is defined in oh so […]
A Full Range of Emotions
I started this blog when my Zilla was living in the same city as me, but in her own place while going to college. Most parents experience the empty nest in some form by having a child move out of their home. Not all experience the empty nest of a child moving far away. I […]
Relative-ity, Friends, and Beyond
There is a book that I recommend to almost everyone with whom I enter into a discussion about books. It is The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. An alternate history that looks at what what the world might be like if Europe had succumbed completely to The Plague rather than recuperating […]
Solo Road Tripping
Road trips have always seemed like they should be relaxed meanderings over highways and byways. For me they never seem to turn out that way though. I have a place to get to and while I might be able to have a bit of wiggle room in the dates and the stops along way to […]