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

A friend sent me an invitation to be her friend on Facebook – but in order to do so, I need to join Facebook.  Or putting it another way, I need to be part of the 21st century! I know what Facebook is, I can spell it, I’m just not a member…yet. So I’m hoping [...]

What do you get when you mix snow with ice?  How about “snice”!  That’s what I’m calling it anyway.  Since we rarely get snow, it’s actually very pretty to see.  Here’s the view from our deck earlier today.  Obviously not a great day for using the pool but had we thought about it earlier, we [...]

One of my faithful few readers, dear pal Vickie, is blegging for my comments on the dress FLOTUS wore to the inaugural balls.  Since I don’t watch television (well, except for “Desperate Housewives”), I didn’t catch all the media hype about “The Dress” but over the weekend I saw a full-length view of it in [...]

We’re in the midst of experiencing our first real winter storm of 08-09.  Icy rain is falling, the roads are slick as you-know-what and memories of  the January 2007  ice storm are vivid since many residents lost power for up to 2 full weeks.  We were lucky – only 74 hours without electricity or water [...]

If you ever attended a drunkfest fraternity party (talk about a redundant phrase!) you can probably finish the limerick in the title – and you know that a limerick consists of 5 lines with lines 1,2 and 5 rhyming as well as lines 3 and 4.  In reading one of my favorite blogs, Freakenomics, today, [...]

I’m an admitted statistics freak – even when I don’t try to be, I am.  Which means that a few times a week I check the stats on my blog to see how many hits I get daily, what posts are the most popular and what terms people use to find my blog. Usually I [...]

We don’t really make New Year’s resolutions but driving home from Phoenix we talked about how we need to branch out and do some different things and start getting together with friends instead of just saying “let’s get together sometime.” Last week I got an email from Houlihan’s announcing that a jazz group would be [...]

TGIF!  For some reason, I thought when I left the pesky day job that Fridays would be no big deal.  And they haven’t been until this week. 5:00 Friday afternoon……my sewing/craft room is painted.  Did you hear my big sigh of relief? I’m sure I could have finished sooner but let’s face it, a girl’s [...]

One thing Burl and I have never had to deal with is one of us being incapacitated due to a broken bone or surgery.  We’re fortunate – and pushing our luck as we stay in this world longer! Last night our Golf Group gathered at our house for drinks, food and Mexican Train (I won [...]

When it comes to politics, I’m a moderate.  Fiscally I’m conservative and I have some liberal views about social issues where the issue is those who are truly less fortunate but I won’t go into how I qualify those individuals. But politically I stay with the centrist views.  Not too far to the left….not too [...]