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

I finished re-reading George Orwell’s classic, “Animal Farm” last night and hated leaving all those magnificent characters.  The book was required reading for me in a high school English class and at that time, we did all the comparisons to Russia, communism and Khrushchev. Fast forward almost 50 years and it’s deja vu all over [...]

A couple of weeks ago we decided we needed a little vacation plus it was a perfect excuse for an early anniversary celebration.  We had a gift certificate to a Missouri Bed & Breakfast so decided a trip to Hermann to sample some wine, eat German food and ride our bikes on the Katy Trail [...]

I’m not talking about the Wisconsin Travel Federation, I’m doing a real WTF?!!! One of the goals I set for myself last year was to read some of the books on the Time-Life list of the 100 Best English Novels.  Now I’ll have to admit that any list that doesn’t include “The World According to [...]

Last fall I attended my high school reunion which my class diligently holds every five years.  In the course of the evening, several of us mentioned that we really needed to get together more often and made it a goal to get it done. In the meantime, some of the key players in this group [...]

Another month, another evening of fabulous friendships and scintillating conversation.  We dined at Nonna’s and Vickie came prepared with typewritten notes which she shared with me to insure correctness in my reporting! Robin and Vickie had lunch together today at the True North event – and dinner again tonight. The True North speaker was an [...]

If you were in grade school when Truman or Eisenhower was president then there’s a good chance that you spent Saturday afternoons at the local movie theatre watching westerns.  The cowboys ruled the black and white screen – Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Rex Allen, Hopalong Cassidy and The Lone Ranger – along with their human, [...]

Branson seems to be a magnet for Geezer Groups – both performers and audiences – so it’s no surprise that Bill Haley’s Original Comets have been performing this season at the Andy Williams Moon River Theatre. A few months ago, I bought four tickets to this show at a charity auction so today we took [...]

Next month we’re heading to Phoenix to watch son Mike participate in his 4th Ironman competition.  At age 39, he’s in the toughest age group and hopes to break the 10-hour mark as well as qualify for the BIG Ironman in Hawaii.  Mike started training several months ago and follows a rigid schedule for his [...]

While out running errands this morning, I was approached in a parking lot by a reporter and photographer from KOLR10/KSFX News.  The reporter explained they were doing a story on consumer credit and were interviewing people to get their views on credit cards along with their reaction to credit card companies raising interest rates and minimum monthly [...]

For several weeks we’ve been planning to attend Colorama which is a motorcycle rally held annually in northern Arkansas by the GoldWing Touring Association.  Arkansas is one of our favorite places for riding because of the awesome curvy roads and great scenery and the rally was being held at a lodge south of Harrison with [...]