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

Since Devin’s not available to model his birthday sweater, I chose one of the stuffed animals from the room where the grandkids sleep.  Certainly not as cute as our little Devin but it was all I had today!  Besides, even though we’re going to see our little guy tomorrow – and I’ll take this gift [...]

Well my family managed to get a permit from the fire department to light the candles on my birthday cake – and daughter Cindy caught me in the act of trying to inhale sufficient air with which to extinguish them! Fortunately, Bella was sitting next to me for assistance – she’ll be 3 in a [...]

I found this list of 50 questions on another blog so at the invitation of that blogger, I stole it!  So please feel free to steal it from me and use on your own own – or email it to 780 of your closest friends!  1. Were you named after anyone?  For about an hour [...]

Last night we had an early celebration of our 6th wedding anniversary and of course we went to our very favorite restaurant – Ocean Zen.  We were seated in a booth near the back of the restaurant kind of out of the way and had a very knowledgeable and fun waiter.  We let him know [...]

Researchers at Oxford University are obviously bored.  While they could be working on eradicating world hunger or curing cancer, they are instead worrying about irritating phrases and have compiled their Top 10 list.  Taken from a book entitled Damp Squid, they are (in order):  At the end of the day Fairly unique I personally At [...]

In case you’re wondering who the chick is who’s hanging all over my sweet hubby, that would be MOI!  The golfer! With perfectly cloudless skies and temps in the 70s today it was hard to find a thing not to like about our golf outing and we definitely picked the right day to play John [...]

I now qualify for a free cup of coffee at Starbucks, a free star-shaped donut at Krispie Kreme or a free scoop of ice cream at Ben & Jerry’s.  More importantly, I qualify to be able to voice my opinion – good or bad – about the results of the election since I have voted. [...]

The only thing better than reading a great book is sharing it with someone else who also enjoys it.  Such is the case with “Gaspipe:  Confessions of a Mafia Boss”.  I finished the book last night and when Tammy told me this morning she needed something to read, I handed it to her and told [...]

Today is technically the longest day of the year since we “fell backward” but the day flew by so quickly that I sure don’t feel like I got any extra time.  Must be because I stayed up late last night reading – one of my habits I never intend to change! We had a wonderful [...]

Long, long ago when I was in high school, my dear friend Sally and I went to different schools together!  She was a Kewpie from Hickman High in Columbia while I was a Fulton Hornet but we still managed to keep in touch almost daily thanks to the US Postal Service and Ma Bell.  Hard [...]