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

Thought I’d see if I can blog via my trusty b’berry so here goes! After 400 plus safe miles today we are now at a lovely B and B in Charlevoix Mi located on Lake MI in the northwest part of the state. The drive today was beautiful – lots of fall color and tall [...]

Chicago IS my kind of town!  Not that I’m ready to move here but it’s definitely my favorite U.S. city and one day in the city only whetted my appetite for more.  Tammy, Ralph and I may have to choose this place for a Chick Weekend instead of Kansas City.  We caught the train a [...]

Still on vacation and still having fun – are you surprised!!  While the guys golfed, Agnes and I took a long walk along the nature trail that runs near their home – then we headed to Long Gove which is a neat little community.  It reminds me of Galloway Village in Springfield with its eclectic [...]

Greetings from the ‘burbs of Chicago.  After a long (560+ miles)trip yesterday with plenty of stops to keep the motorcycle full of gas and us fed and hydrated we arrived at Ed and Agnes’ around 5:45 – naturally we had plenty of road work delays around Chicago, even on the tollway.  As I recall when [...]

The motorcycle and trailer are packed sans makeup and hair stuff I’ll use in the morning plus packing the cooler – plans are to be on the road by 7:00 a.m. with a stop at Burl’s favorite spot, Cracker Barrel, for breakfast.  Lunch will be a picnic at a roadside park in Illinois where I [...]

No, not the vow I took when I married Burl – I’m referring with this post to what I consider to be the greatest cartoon strip ever written.  Lynn Johnston’s fictional family, the Pattersons, have been part of my life for many year – in fact they so much feel like good friends that daughter [...]

We used to go to a lot of movies but lately the crap that Hollywood passes off as entertainment leaves a lot to be desired so I’m not sure what we saw last – maybe “Wild Hogs” which is already out on DVD.  But I relented this weekend when Burl wanted to see “3:10 to [...]

My annual work project that’s lovingly known as the “bucking fudget” is now over and done with – tonight was the big presentation to the Board of Directors and after having shown it previously to several sub-committees, tonight’s offering was anti-climatic.  But – the fact remains that after my assistant and I clean up some [...]

The last several months have yielded few opportunities for lunch away from my desk unless I was at another meeting – and that really doesn’t count for lunch in my book!  But yesterday and today I was fortunate to not only get out of the office for my eats but to enjoy the company of [...]

The gears on my Trek got plenty of shifting this weekend as I rode/endured 160 out of 173 miles of the MS150 Bike Ride.  We left Willard yesterday morning at 7 a.m. under bright blue cool skies – temp of about 58 – not knowing what tricks Mother Nature had in store for us.  The [...]