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

Rush hour traffice for us again today as we left early this morning going to Scottsdale to meet friends Mary Kay and Everett for breakfast and a day at the weekly PGA event, the FBR Open (formerly the Phoenix Open).  Mary Kay and Everett live in Des Moines and share 2 beautiful granddaughters with us since [...]

We left before 8:00 this morning to meet friends in Chandler which was about 35 miles away – we’re in Peoria which is in NW Phoenix and were heading to the SE part of town.  Within 5 minutes we were on the 101 Loop that goes around the city and immediately were in bumper-to-bumper traffic.  [...]

Phoenix is alive with Super Bowl enthusiasm this week and rightfully so.  Annie and I headed out this afternoon to hit one of the malls and our route took us past the Univ. of Phoenix stadium where the big game will be played on Sunday.  The parking lot is packed with tents for the NFL Experience which [...]

I’ve never been one to make New Year’s Resolutions because they would always repeat from year to year - lose weight, exercise more, be a nicer person, work less, etc.  However I did make a major dietary change on January 1 mainly out of curiosity and also based on a comment from my wellness coach at [...]

In case you think you should envy us being in sunny, warm Phoenix I wanted to let our friends at home know that today the high here is supposed to be 52 with rain all day – while Springtown is shooting for 61 and sunny!  Oh well, we’re getting plenty of sunshine from new grandson Devin [...]

We’re flying out in the morning to Phoenix to meet new grandson Devin, see his parents and enjoy a week in warmer climes.  Tonight has been a flurry of activity – hit the gym, came home and finished off leftovers in the fridge, did laundry, packed – all those little last-minute details that go into [...]

Apparently there has been a move afoot to retire the word “retirement” - in a recent contest, the winner was awarded a $100,000 annuity for the best replacement term which is Life 2.0.  I’m still mulling over the phrase – it doesn’t just reach out and grab me with enthusiasm but then neither does the word [...]

Dear friend Vickie emailed the following to me today and it says so eloquently how I feel about my girlfriends: “When I was little, I used to believe in the concept of one best friend, and then I started to become a woman. And then I found out that if you allow your heart to open [...]

This weekend we have the pleasure of babysitting Bella who turned 2 at Thanksgiving.  She is quite a delightful young lady with a rapidly-growing vocabulary and boundless energy.  Tonight we decided to take her out to eat and the young fathers in my office told me the best choices were Chuck E. Cheese or a [...]

The January issue of Oprah magazine lists The Top 25 Items That Just Gotta Go unless you want to look frumpy.  I’ll admit I turned to the article with a bit of fear and trepidation because even though I gave birth to the Chief of the Fashion Police, I have been known to hold on [...]