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

It’s adios to the month of Julia Caesar (“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars…..”) and get ready for August.  Months seems to have a “feel”  to them for me and August feels like lazy, hazy, crazy days – the final full month of summer when I want to cram in everything I [...]

For almost 2 years I’ve been treated to book possibilities 5 days a week through a great service called dearreader.com.  I first read about it in Oprah and quickly subscribed.  Each day, Monday through Friday, I get a chapter of a book to read – I have signed up for non-fiction, fiction, business, and new [...]

30 hours – just the right amount of time for us to get totally away, relax and recharge.  Destination Branson – and the beautiful home in Sunset Cove where friend Bev lives with her Bichon, Holly.  We started with a beer on her deck looking out at a spectacular view of the lake – in [...]

In the current issue of Newsweek, Robert J. Samuelson writes about “The Sad Fate of the Comma” in his weekly column.  I agree with his theory that the sad fate of the comma, which is becoming almost extinct in grammar thanks to text messages and e-mails, is a metaphor for something larger in our modern [...]

While golf doesn’t qualify as a 4-letter word for me, it’s certainly not on my Top 10 List of Fun Things to Do list.  But Friday night was Couples Golf at our golf club so being the good wife that I am, we played and it was actually fun – perhaps the most fun I can [...]

Rarely do we have friends over during the week – first of all, my departure time at work is usually iffy in the summer plus there’s the “what to fix for dinner?” question followed by the obvious fact that only good friends get to see our house on Wednesday when the housekeeper came last Friday.  [...]

Yesterday was the annual “Pancake Ride” to train for the MS150 bicycle ride to be held September 15-16.  My normal breakfast routine of fruit and cereal was set aside – I figured after the first 12 miles on the Trek I could eat a couple of pancakes and not worry that the syrup wasn’t sugar-free!  [...]

Today is Ralph’s 37th birthday – I’ve already wished her greetings by phone and she was looking forward to a relaxing morning away from her beautiful daughters – a pedicure was on her agenda and probably a relaxing cappucino before putting in the afternoon playing nurse at the clinic where she fills in. At the [...]

Nothing quite measures up to the experience of being a Grammie – of course you have to have fabulous kids yourself in order to get great grandkids – and that’s what I have!  They arrived last Friday around noon along with their mom and the last few days have been a non-stop whirl of kiddos.  [...]

4th of July is my favorite secular holiday – I love anything flag-waving with patriotic music and bands playing plus it’s always hot and the day usually involves plenty of picnic food ending with fireworks.  But it’s not just the events of the day that I love – it’s what the day stands for – [...]