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

Today is New Year’s Eve which I suppose should prompt me to write something very profound like my Top 10 List for 2008 or my New Year’s  resolutions or predictions for the world for next year.  So if that’s what you’re looking for you may as well stop now! 2008 produced a huge life change [...]

Over a thousand years ago, the Indians in northern Arizona lived in cave dwellings.  One such grouping of dwellings left by several different tribes are called the Palataki Ruins and we toured them today.  The dwellings also featured petroglyphs which the volunteer guide described as early journals – I prefer to think of them as [...]

Since we didn’t decorate our home this year, I have no tree to take down, no ornaments to carefully pack away, no fir needles to vacuum up – and when we return all I have to do is take the wreath off the front door and put away the candle in the middle of the [...]

December 26th is like a big sigh – all the buildup to Christmas Day is over – the buying, wrapping, sending, baking, partying (well, almost), cleaning, gifting – today is after the fact and it feels pretty darned good.  No more “to do” lists looking over my shoulder and I don’t even have to think [...]

Christmas Day is drawing to a close but we have truly enjoyed these last couple of days and have had so many opportunities to reflect on what Christmas really means and to enjoy family and friends too. Yesterday Burl just had to get out and shop – I guess it’s a “Guy Thing” that men [...]

When we travel to Phoenix via motorcycle, we always stop at our favorite rest stop right inside the Arizona state line on I-40.  If the timing is right, we stop and have a picnic lunch and Burl will then nap on a picnic table while I hike.  Such was not the plan today – here’s [...]

We are in Albuquerque tonight after driving 845 miles.  I can’t remember ever having gone that far in a vehicle in one day but it really wasn’t too bad – especially since I only drove for a few hours and the rest of the time I either read or knitted! We did have snow for [...]

Christmas is full of symbols – lighted trees, wreaths on the door, candlelight Christmas Eve services, cards, gifts, parties – the list is endless and as varied as the celebrants.  I find each year that the shopping, decorating and parties seem less enthralling but there are a couple of traditions that really ground me with [...]

We leave early Monday morning on our longest road trip yet without the motorcycle – Phoenix for Christmas, San Diego for New Year’s.  Naturally a trip of 4000+ miles requires a lot of planning.  Burl got the tires rotated on the truck, built a platform for the laptop for me to use while he’s driving [...]

Lazy blogging again, folks!  Here’s how it works: The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve [...]