The Son who’d been living with us for three years finally moved out in November. Well… moving out is a relative term since half his stuff is still in the basement. I’ve had this crazy idea of moving the rooms around, again, trying to fix a place to entertain friends for a meal by getting […]
Sahill Bloom was getting ready to turn thirty-two years old and wondered what kind of advice he would get from his older self to this younger self. So he set about to ask many eighty-year-olds what would they remind their younger selves to know. He made this list which I thought was a wonderful reminder
The most exciting thing is happening today – I’m getting my teeth cleaned! Last year, the first week of March, I had my appointment for a teeth cleaning. This was the beginning of the covid scare, so when the dentist’s office called, seeming as if they really wanted me to cancel, I obliged. I thought
In the first grade, we lived in a little cottage on Main Street in Martinsville, Indiana. There was a living room and kitchen on the main floor with the two bedrooms upstairs. Our little family of five had our meals in the eat-in kitchen; our dog enjoyed the picket fenced backyard. A gas station with
Yesterday was a wait day for me. After waiting a week to get an appointment with the service department for our car, it was finally the day for me to camp out in the waiting area. I took my computer with me, hoping to just play games or read the news or whatever while I
When I was in the first grade, we lived in Martinsville, Indiana, a small town. Mom and Dad had friends who they played cards with all the time. Since we girls were younger than their children, they usually came over to our house to play. We Girls would be in bed, supposed to be asleep,
We are a week away from having lived in the state of covid for a year. Last year, a day before the shutdown, a childhood friend and I met for lunch, talking for five hours. Maybe we sensed the disaster this last year has been. We all tried to be Good Soldiers, entering the shutdown
Yesterday was such a gorgeous day, I actually went outside to enjoy myself. Several weeks ago, I helped a lady who was cleaning out her sister’s house.
There are memes, weekly, floating through Facebook about some home in the country, mountains, woods, with the quote “You can have this if you give up fill-in-the-blank.” They say “give up football the rest of your life” or “give up the internet.”
I’ve seen a lot of memes lately about how long the month of January always seems to be, like this one below. Well, this year, for me, January seems to be flying by. I can’t help but think if “the longest month of the year” is flying by, what will the rest of the year