Shifting Gears   Baby Boomer…Member Life 2.0…Wife, Mother, Grammie…Bicyclist…GoldWinger…Mensan…Girl Scout…Reader…Knitter…Rotarian

Big shift occurred last weekend – had to fly home from vacation on Saturday but fortunately my plane change in Denver didn’t yield a lengthy layover.  The bad weather in Iowa and Illinois had lots of flights cancelled or delayed – in fact the line at the United Service Desk was easily 250+ people long.  My plane [...]

If you read my Life List on 1/3/07 you may recall that #32 was “Hike the Grand Canyon”.  I can now report that I have accomplished that goal!  On Monday 2/19 we drove to the Canyon – the temp was in the low 20s with a viscious wind chill and almost blizzard snow conditions – [...]

Yesterday we flew to Phoenix – first time we’d flown since all the newly enhanced TSA regulations but I’m happy to report my knitting needles made it through security with no problems!  Got to Denver and our 1-hour layover stretched to 4 since the plane coming from Tampa was delayed.  So we killed a few [...]

I finished “Skylight Confessions” by Alice Hoffman this evening and almost set a record for leaving a book unfinished when there were only a few chapters left.  Usually I can make that determination early into a book but this one was pretty sly – it managed to grab my attention just when I was ready [...]

When best friend and I were in the throes of adolescence, the above greeting sounded quite cool on Valentine’s Day.  Hopefully I have now progressed beyond teen-age humor but I couldn’t resist adding that line to her Valentine or saying it to my kids who expect nothing less than tasteless from me on the right [...]

Yesterday was hubby’s birthday so of course we had to celebrate!  On Sunday night his golfing buddies and their wives came over for dinner followed by a rousing game of Mexican Train dominoes.  I didn’t bother to tell him they were coming so when the first couple showed up he was still in his “workin’s” [...]

That old saying about why young people have babies is 100% correct – and 3 days of chasing and being entertained by a 14-month old grandbaby is proof.  Isabella (Bella) spent a few days with us while her parents went to Winter Park, CO to ski.  She is a delightful young lady – very easy [...]

I was driving back to work today from Rotary  – flipping through 3 radio stations trying to decide which had the most acceptable tunes (okay, I admit, one of them was NPR but sometimes their mid-day classical selections beat the drivel from the commercial stations!).  Settled on Oldies 105.1 when they gave the noontime trivia question:  [...]

I don’t often go out for lunch – prefer to try to get in some type of quick workout and then eat my Weight Watcher points-friendly meal at my desk – but occasionally I break out of my mold and today was one of those days.  I met my dear friends Laura and Dana at [...]

Our dog Mulligan has told us he’s the world’s smartest and most wonderful dog – and I truly believe him.  However, as far as non-human friends go, it’s pretty hard to compete with a good book.  I just finished “Tough Choices” by Carly Fiorina who was the CEO of Hewlett-Packard for 5+ years before being [...]