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

Santa Barbara tonite…Mexican food & margaritas  Stayed in Big Sur last niitenoire…lunch yesterday on the wharf inMonterrey  lots of bicyclists on Hwy 1…awesome sceneryqscenery  today toured Hearst Castle…paid $5.99 per gallon for gas  iPhone sucks for blogging  

Greetings from Flagstaff AZ.  580 miles Sunday to Amarillo …hot &very windy  640 miles today.  beautiful scenery.  met a cyclist from England last night and had dinner together – very interesting guy.  dinner tonight at GrannysCloset recommended by John Wilson.  iBlogging very tedious!  On to Bakersfield tomorrow.  Big Sur on Wed nesday.

Day #1 of Life 2.0 did not disappoint in the least.  For some reason I had set my alarm but when it went off, I was wide awake and rarin’ to go and I realized I had slept better than I had in a long time.  I had my coffee on the deck while I [...]

64 years ago today, Allied Forces crossed the English Channel and stormed the beaches of Normandy in a gruesome battle that was one of the defining moments of World War II.  Today I stormed through the doors of CoxHealth in one of the most defining moments of my life – Life 2.0 has begun on my [...]

I like to think of one-word descriptions so today while driving to work, I pondered a word to match my feelings on this, my last official day of my career at CoxHealth.  Weird, odd, bizarre, unrealistic, dreamlike – all are alternate words Roget uses for surreal and they work.  I’m sitting in my office which [...]

It’s time for Hillary to give it up – whether she likes the outcome or not, she has not garnered the votes to be the Dems nominee for President.  But I’m guessing she’s politicking behind the scenes for either a spot on the ticket or someone to help bail out the alleged $30 million in [...]

Down to three days remaining at work and there is still a lot to clear out of my office!  Jeez Louise – but it has been rather fun to discover some of the “goodies” I saved through the years – memos I wrote, presentations I gave, cartoons in the archives plus old employee manuals.  I [...]

When the alarm sounded this morning (and I hit the SNOOZE button for the first time) I realized today is the last Monday morning of my career.  Even though my secretary is already weepy this morning, I’m looking at the week so far rather matter-of-fact-like – it is what it is and I don’t think [...]

Tonight we had a belated birthday dinner for son-in-law Steve.  His actual birthday was May 30th but their schedule and ours didn’t mesh until today.  Steve is a phenomenal young man with a thirst for knowledge and a wealth of information about a wide variety of topics – everything from science fiction to gourmet cooking [...]

The last few days have morphed into summer and with the pool now uncovered, I’m feeling summerish.  Friday evening we played couples golf at our club and fortunately did NOT finish DFL (that’s dead f’ing last!) no thanks on my part but hey, I never said I could golf, just that I had clubs.  But [...]