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

Today is officially Stacey’s 40th birthday even though we celebrated with a party in Phoenix over the weekend.    The party was definitely a hit since it had Stacey’s favorite ingredients – margaritas, Mexican food and her family. Here she is with Burl and I realize how much they are two peas in a pod.  They [...]

Over the weekend I finished reading “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” by Jamie Ford.  In addition to having a great title and cover, this book was a wonderful read and one in which I really connected with the characters.  It was fictionalized history and was told in flashbacks to 1942-46 from the [...]

Yesterday we celebrated Stacey’s 40thbirthday party with family and a few of her Phoenix friends.  In keeping with her passion for margaritas, we had a taco bar plus plenty of fresh guacamole to go with the chips.  And no party for Stacey would be complete without a Costco cake – so yummy with the cream [...]

It has been a long time since I flew along – almost 8 years at least and I’ll admit I’m spoiled in that I no longer have to load my bags in the car, drive to the airport, lug my stuff into the ticket counter, yada, yada, yada….. But the Allegiant flights to Phoenix made it [...]

Facebook is certainly great for trips down memory lane.  Just this week I heard from someone who roomed with my best friend, Sally, during our freshman year at Drury.  This person (also an Anne) asked about both Sally and Leslie – Leslie was my roommate our freshman year and we lived across the hall from Sally [...]

This evening the self-proclaimed fabulous Women of Substance dined outside at d’Arpino’s Italian restaurant.  Vickie even brought a list of topics so we hadn’t even ordered before the discussion started.  Here are the highlights that we can share: Robin was sporting a new white purse which she loves – but not as much as the [...]

Pool Boy, aka Hubby, is in Phoenix this week and it’s a bit lonely here.  I have to fetch the paper in the morning from the end of the drive, put chlorine tablets in the pool and empty the skimmer (at least 1 dead frog each day so far), water the garden and flowers, and [...]

I’m a true romantic – I cry at sappy movies and despite the assumptions my family and friends may have made about the odds of me getting married again, the delay was due to not having the right groom and not because of my angst with marriage. Now that I’ve found true love I want [...]

D-Day – June 6, 2008 – I officially left that pesky day job and upgraded to Life 2.0.  A year later it’s hard to remember rising at the butt crack of dawn, dressing in professional clothing, commuting to work, endless meetings and a huge amount of stress (often self-induced but that’s due to my former [...]

Annually the Rotary Clubs of Springfield and Rotaract hold a citywide meeting featuring a nationally known speaker and humanitarian.   We were honored this year to have Ray Klinginsmith from Kirksville, MO who will become the president of Rotary International in July 2010.  Ray is an affable guy who embodies the motto of Rotary which is [...]