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

Today started out like any ordinary Monday – I had a class at the gym at 10, followed by a little time on the Stairmaster and then I ran some errands.  Stopped at the library to pick up a book I had on hold, Walgreen’s for photos I had printed (special offer – 30 pix for [...]

For the last few days I’ve hung out with dear friend – and Woman of Substance – Vickie and her daughter, Hannah. Vickie and I attended a Rotary leadership conference in Jefferson City and decided to share a room to cut costs and have more fun. We drove up on Thursday hoping for a successful [...]

What do you call it when someone bitches about your blog?  I call it Blitching!  And I love it when it comes from ever-loyal reader – and Woman of Substance – Vickie who lovingly tells me I am missed!  I replied to her that I hadn’t had any recent inspiration except some bitching about the [...]

We missed our Women of Substance in February and it was all my fault.  I take total blame but fortunately Vickie and Robin are forgiving friends.  We made up for lost time today!  It was our first ever luncheon gathering made possible by Vickie taking the afternoon off and Robin currently pursuing other occupational opportunities.  [...]

I look outside and there are no palm trees.  No mountains in the distance.  No sunshine today.  And it’s too cold to go out in shorts and sandals.  That can only mean one thing…….. We are home!  After almost two months of being gone, we landed back where we started!  We left Phoenix early Monday [...]

Perhaps you’ve gotten an email that tells about Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.   It goes something like this:   Arpaio has over 10,000 inmates in his jail system.  In August, 1993, he started the nation’s largest Tent City for convicted inmates.   Two thousand convicted men and women serve their sentences in a canvas incarceration compound.  [...]

We’ve had a busy week wrapping up our stay in Phoenix – busy but not too exciting blog-wise.  Thanks, Vickie, for not complaining for my lack of posts.  I could rant and rave about the healthcare bill and how our future generations are already mortgaged to the hilt just to cover Medicare, Medicaid and Social [...]

Today it was cold (56 degrees) and rainy in Phoenix.  Springfield was a balmy 10 degrees warmer with sunshine.  What’s wrong with this picture?  Guess it’s time to think about going home! But wait – the clouds are leaving, the sun WILL come out tomorrow and by the middle of the week it will be [...]

When daughter Ralph left for William Jewell College many years ago, she reluctantly agreed to go through rush.  She assured me she had absolutely no desire to join a sorority because it would be full of a bunch of phonies and there would be no way she’d keep in contact with them after she left college.  [...]

On my list of things I need/want to do before we return home has been one huge chore that I’ve been avoiding – finishing gathering and organizing our income tax info for our CPA. When the division of chores was done between us, I got taxes but I’ll take that any day over yard, vehicle [...]