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

The luggage has been relinquished to the baggage handlers, the boarding pass is in hand and we have been through security so now we are waiting for our flight. As usual when we allow plenty of time the traffic flowed smoothly and we had no lines in which to wait when we got to the commuter [...]

Stacey took Monday off from work so while Burl and Len played the south course at Torrey Pines we decided to just hang out. We had considered the world famous Zoo but decided to leave that for our next visit. All we wanted was exercise, shopping, food and the BEACH! We left the house and [...]

Greetings from San Diego! The air has a faint smoky odor but other than that it’s hard to believe this area was under wildfire siege just a few days ago. We’ve had a couple of fun-filled days starting yesterday morning when we met our friends Dave and JoAnn at Mimi’s for breakfast. They are friends [...]

We headed west today and arrived in Phoenix early this evening by way of San Diego. Lest you think we are directionally challenged let me explain! While we wanted to be here for Annies baby shower we also wanted cheap plane tickets! So we drove to Tulsa last evening, caught a flight to San Diego [...]

The last time I graced the interior of the Gillioz Theatre in downtown Springfield was almost 30 years ago when Bill (aka, Starter Husband) and I saw John Travolta in “Saturday Night Fever.”  Today my Rotary Club had lunch and a tour of this fabulous restored theatre that was built in 1926, abandoned in 1980 [...]

Burl left the house early this morning to drive the Seniors from church on an excursion to Independence and a tour of the Truman Presidential Library.  I teased him about his “groupies” since a couple of the older ladies stopped him at church on Sunday to make sure he was driving the group today!  He [...]

Us with Mulligan   Somehow while playing around on my blog tonight I managed to upload a photo – or at least a link to one ’cause you have to click on the “Us With Mulligan” link above to actually see it.   I saved the photo last January and never could figure out how to get it [...]

Burl’s daughter Stacey and her family live just north of San Diego and since they moved there last spring we haven’t had a chance to visit – which means we really had no idea how close they were to the raging forest fires that started over the weekend in the southern California area.  They called [...]

I lamented on Monday that I was going to have to work all 5 days for a change and by Friday at 5:00 I was really dragging.  It was a week of events every evening which meant the earliest I got home was 8:30, 3 early morning meetings and 4 days of lunch meetings.  Meetings, [...]

This evening I attended the annual celebration for the Greater Ozarks Business and Professional Women’s organization.  I had been asked by my friend Noel to be their speaker for the evening – I still have no idea why she was crazy enough to ask me but I was extremely flattered and figured I should try [...]