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

Conventional wisdom says that men will never stop and ask for directions.  I’m certainly no expert on men but my limited experience has taught me that generally, they won’t!  They prefer to “guess” where they are going while acting like the route they are taking is the correct one – and if it’s not, well [...]

We’re currently on the search for a new church – and before any of my friends read this and feel compelled to invite us to attend with you, allow me to say thanks for the offer but we think we may have found where we want to land. Changing churches is never an easy decision and [...]

My birthday was a few days ago……..and my wedding anniversary – so this has been a week of celebrations.  My theory is if one special day is good, spreading the fun over several days is even better! Actually the fun began on our recent trip since Sally and I were both facing “the big one” within [...]

Tonight is my Birthday Eve and what better way to enjoy it than to see my dear friends Robin and Vickie.  Vickie gave me a great little book with quotes on friendship for every day of the year and Robin gave me a bottle of our favorite wine to celebrate my “birthiversary”.  We did a [...]

Our last full day in Aruba began once again with a walk on the beach – why mess with success?  A million miles from nowhere – but where’s Springfield?I loved this site which I passed every morning – reminded me how little I missed “civilization” and how nice it was to be spending time not [...]

Thursday’s big adventure was parasailing for Burl.  We have both tried it before – me in Key West from a boat and Burl in Acapulco starting on the beach.  I loved it but wasn’t too enthralled with just going out a bit in the ocean and going up and down in front of the beach [...]

The fun continues in Aruba……. Tuesday morning we deviated from our “schedule” a bit – the guys left early via taxi for breakfast and 18 holes of golf.  Sally was enjoying sleeping in and I decided to ditch my shoes and enjoy a barefoot 5-mile walk on the beautiful sandy beach.  It seemed like a [...]

Now I understand why the Beach Boys began “Kokomo” with the word “Aruba” – what other word could so totally represent the perfect tropical isle?! But Aruba was far off the radar screen for us until a few weeks ago when our friends Sally and Bob sent an email asking if we’d like to join [...]