I was born in Quincy in 1950…My Dad was in the Navy…and my Mother was pretty…Are you doing the math in your head yet?…Here, want a pencil?! I don’t tell anyone my real age unless it’s going to save me some money, which happened recently. Floyd’s Jacksonville Center for the Arts has a new retail […]
AKA Raising the Roof: The Palomino pop-up camper rides again. My husband, Joe, and I went camping this weekend along a nearby lake. The water was warm, the camp chili was good, and the blogging was no-tech, as opposed to low-tech, which means I was writing in notebooks. I’ll be back to my regular posting […]
A bird that sounded like a ringing cell phone flew into the house and couldn’t get back out. I was in the upstairs office when I heard it, and I nervously crept down the stairs to see what it was because I don’t own a cell phone. My husband’s nephew, who was having trouble with […]
The pool wasn’t busy the last time I was there. With so many empty lounge chairs to pick from, I made a couple of false starts before making my final decision on which one would be my base of operation. Ironically, it’s a lot easier to choose a lounge chair when the pool is crowded […]
A butterfly flew straight towards me, without any introduction, and landed on my bright Caribbean blue sundress. The one that I wear when I’m gardening with the palm trees on pink islands and yellow hibiscus flowers on it. “It was a swallowtail,” my friend later told me when I described its yellow and black striped […]
Woke up, fell out of bed, Dragged a comb across my head, Found my way downstairs and drank a cup, And looking up I noticed I was late… ~ The Beatles The following is one typical day in my current life, told in 25 easy steps. 1. Sometimes, when I wake up, I find a […]
I didn’t have to get the mail. All I get is catalogs and junk mail these days. I just wanted to stay outside in the night, under the stars a little longer, after my jump on the trampoline. But our driveway is long, nearly ¼ of a mile, and I had forgotten that the larger […]
My husband, Joe, and I live on the dividend of the honest communication that we’ve invested in each other over time. With just a little maintenance and upkeep, our relationship remains rewarding. He’s not even jealous that I sometimes yearn for a long distance love……the ocean. In fact, he drives me to it a couple […]
It has become clear to me that one of the most deep-rooted causes of our problems is the way we treat children and above all babies. I am equally convinced that no program of social and political change that does not include and begin with changes in the ways in which we bear and rear […]
The State Park I’m camped out in is on 4,000 acres and named for the Indian Chief who once presided over it. My excuse for heading out on my bike this afternoon is to fill my water bottles from the nearby springhouse. Mostly, I want to push through a spell of lethargy that I’m feeling, […]
I sprained my ankle this past Saturday night, and since then my mobility has been severely limited. Luckily, it happened after I had just finished dancing for 2 hours to “The Kind” at Whiskers Roadside in Floyd (because I won’t be doing that again for awhile). My husband and I were picking up his teenage […]
Don’t get me wrong. I really do love my husband… The boot is from LL Bean. It’s all-leather, waterproof, and not clunky. It’s good for hiking as well as city walking and can be worn with pants or a skirt if need be. It’s almost 10 years old, and at the time of purchase, it […]
