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

I came home tonight, drove in the driveway, hit the garage door opener and knew immediately that we had been robbed.  How else to explain a clean garage capable of holding 2 vehicles – something I haven’t seen in the 6 years I’ve lived in this house!  But closer inspection revealed that the GoldWing, trailer [...]

How do you like the new look?  Every few months I peruse the blog presentation choices and decided tonight I liked this one – after a year, I’m ready for a change!  Can you imagine what Burl is in for when I retire and decide I was to redecorate or rearrange the furniture?  Too bad [...]

If you read this blog on November 18th you’re already familiar with my activities of realigning the local Girl Scout council with 4 other Missouri councils.  It’s a year-long undertaking and my part ends on 9/30/08 but between now and then, I’ll have my share of meetings.  The last two days were case in point as [...]

This evening I had the fun of meeting friends Robin and Vickie for a Girls Night Out dinner at Metropolitan Grill.  Vickie organized this event and I chimed in with a suggestion to avoid the chain restaurants – and as always, Metro Grill did not disappoint!  Second best to the fabulous company was the flash-fried [...]

This evening I got together with friends Heidi and Jill to knit, drink wine and bitch a bit – a perfect girls evening together!  Heidi and I were bicycling buddies about 15 years ago and can still pick up the same vein of conversation and laugh outrageously at and with ourselves.  Marriage for both, a [...]

Last weekend gave us spring-like weather along with a record high on Sunday of 71.  We really wanted time on the motorcycle but instead chose to dig a 12″ deep, 6″wide and 75′ long trench from the new garage to our house so Burl could bury the electrical cable.  I missed going to the gym [...]

Many of my friends associated the name of my blog with my love for bicycles and motorcycles plus my association with Rotary – but I doubt anyone knew the true meaning of this moniker.  I’ve written this posting in my mind for the last several months but as of today I can finally reveal the [...]

The 2008 presidential campaign is officially underway tonight in Iowa with the early returns showing Obama and Huckabee the winners.  My response is “how come we get 50 choices for Miss America and just a handful for president?”  This year I have no clear-cut favorite of either party unless you count Ron Paul and I [...]

“Shifting Gears” is one year old today which means this blog has progressed from the infant to the toddler stage!  Being the number nerd that I am, I just had to run some stats – I have posted 165 times for an average of 13.75 posts per month or one every 2.21 days or 45.205% [...]

It’s now 2008 and the MU Tigers started the year off right for their fans with a 38-7 routing of Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl – Go Tigers!  We had a mild NYE with friends at home and were just getting snuggled down for a good night’s rest when the new year arrived.  My mother-in-law [...]