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

Happy First Birthday to our grandson, Devin, who turned one today.  Here’s a photo of our little “Asian Mike” along with his buddy Santa.  Just 5 days until we arrive at his house for a Christmas visit.

Wanna know what happens when you go to bed at 3:20 and get up at 7:00?  I’ll tell you – you start to crash at 10:00 p.m.!  So why am I posting to my blog instead of going to bed?  Excellent question.  I’m glad you asked. Blogging helps me relax and slow down before I [...]

One of the joys of blogging is getting comments from my army of 2-3 faithful readers.  Occasionally I get a complaint which happened yesterday – dear friend and Woman of Substance Vickie complained that I hadn’t blogged for 4 days.  Make that 5 now Vickie!  Seems that I have been “2 busy 2 blog.”  However, [...]

Seven years ago this evening I boldly ventured out on my own to meet a guy named Burl at the Springfield Brewing Co.   Most of my friends know we had met online and corresponded briefly but December 13, 2001 was our first official face-to-face meeting.  Fortunately he brought photos of his family and I recognized [...]

I’ve barely gotten used to Life 2.0 when the current edition of Newsweek has a major story on The Search for Longevity with a subtitle of Geezer 2.0!  The subjects in this article are all 85+ so it appears all I have to do is eat healthy, exercise, keep my cholesterol, weight and blood pressure in [...]

While we were in Phoenix last month, a new movie theatre opened in our downtown area and Burl has been wanting to go check it out, despite the dearth of decent movies being turned out by Hollywood.  Since it has 14 screen, it provides ample opportunity to see sub-par flicks at higher prices – such [...]

The majority of my Christmas shopping has been by Internet or at non-mall places like Target.  However, today I stupidly chose to darken the doors of the mall to pick up a couple of gift certificates and try to redeem some special coupons I had received. I got one of the gift certificates, decided the [...]

I’m sitting in Panera Bread with my laptop making my first blog posting from our new laptop.  Just couldn’t wait to try it out and I love it.  Sent my first email to Burl to remind him we’re playing raquetball at 1:30. Off to Rotary!

Six months ago when I upgraded to Life 2.0 we considered buying a laptop thinking we would use it when we travel.  Since my blackberry had been employer-furnished I had to get a cell phone so in the end we opted for me to get an iPhone and we passed on the laptop.  Then a [...]

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is the the latest in a long string of high-profile people who seem to feel entitled to act with reckless abandon and then claim they have done nothing wrong.   Give.  Me.  A.  Break. Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Jesse Jackson – the list could go on and on and while the Illinois [...]