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

I’ve heard people say “oh, I just forgot to eat” and that statement has always amazed me – especially since it usually is uttered by some little twig like Ralph for whom a size 2 is big.  I can forget where I put something, or someone’s name, or an errand to run – but I [...]

Tomorrow is the birthday of my first-born, Tammy – the anniversary of the day I began the greatest adventure of my life which is being a mother.  Since I may not get to blog until later tomorrow evening I wanted to go ahead and post this greeting to her in case she’s able to log [...]

The first official weekend of summer didn’t disappoint since I got to relax, bike, eat out, play with our granddaughter and veg in the pool!  Saturday morning I jumped out of bed at 6:00 for a group bike ride that started at 7:00 – it was a training ride for the MS150 and I knew [...]

Today’s comic strip of “Blondie” made reference to the Springfield Cardinals.  Since our AA team is called the Springfield Cardinals (a farm team of the 2006 World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals) I thought it was really neat – and considered it just a coincidence.  Then today at Rotary I discovered that the franchise-holder for [...]

Summer = reading to my way of thinking – must be a throwback from when I was a kid and I spent every spare minute either riding my bike, swimming or sitting on the front porch and reading.  I’d ride my bike to the Callaway County Library, fill the basket on the front of my trusty [...]

All my life the phrase “going to the lake” has been important – when I was a kid it meant summer vacations and Girl Scout Camp Pin Oak at the Lake of the Ozarks.  College years to now has changed the location to Table Rock Lake but even though I’ve never owned a cabin or [...]

Turns out my dear, sweet hubby is not a reader of this blog (his loss!) – but his brother Ed does check in – thanks Ed.  Burl called Ed today just to catch up on life and was a bit disappointed that Ed already knew the family news compliments of this website.  However it was [...]

Several Kiwis (aka New Zealanders) have been in Springfield for the last few days as members of a Rotary International Friendship Exchange.  Burl met them on Thursday when he was the van driver to pick them up from their last location and bring them to Springfield.  Then last night I got to meet them too [...]

Check out this fun website to find out the definition of you in the dictionary!  Turns out I’m defined as a noun and “a person of questionable sanity who starts her own cult.”  When I typed in daughter Tammy’s name I got “noun, killer of all types of bees” – rather eery when you consider the [...]

Just realized I haven’t written since last Saturday – we were in Phoenix then, came home on Sunday evening and the week seems to have flown by.  Not that I mind Friday looming on the horizon but time seems to be zipping by.  Stopped by the library on the way home this evening and picked [...]