I am writ­ing this post to wish a good friend “good luck” as she tack­les surgery for her recently found breast can­cer. God, what awful words to hear “breast can­cer”. All women know it is out there. All of us know we stand a chance of hear­ing those very words. All of us breath a […]

I can already see a pat­tern. Blog­ging in the sum­mer is going to be a prob­lem. It’s not that I don’t like post­ing. I love it. I am just so busy out­side in the sum­mer that by the time I come in, eat, and shower, it is time to call it a night. This is […]

Most peo­ple who know me would not con­sider me an impul­sive per­son. When you are a con­trol freak you like to have all your ducks in a row, so to speak, before mak­ing deci­sions. Which is why, I sup­pose, my hus­band has been ques­tion­ing my san­ity ever since I saw my “dream home” in our […]

I have sat down to write this post and before I can even start I have had to stop. I feel my throat close and the tears loom­ing and my stom­ach clench­ing. I want to just sit and sob. It is such a long story over so many years. I am always sur­prised at the […]

I just got off the phone (yes, a real phone conversation.…no email, no post, no texting…real talking..imagine that)with a dear and val­ued friend of long long stand­ing. What a joy it was to recon­nect with her. I have been blessed in that over the course of many years, many states and many moves, I have […]

I don’t know why it is, but every time I come home from a vaca­tion I get depressed. Maybe it is because 24 hours after being home it is as if we never left. And then there is all the catch­ing up to do. Mow­ing, work, bills, more mow­ing, more bills, water­ing plants, more mowing. […]

How strange to be back post­ing on a “reg­u­lar” basis…she says tongue in cheek. Reg­u­lar for me any­way. Some­times I go back and reread some of my posts and am embar­rassed by all the spelling errors.  Sorry. I do usu­ally go back and check but seem to miss them any­way. Know that I try.So we […]

Hi fel­low blog­gers. I am just back from our trip and have lots to tell soon. But today, today is son Sherman’s birth­day and so this is ded­i­cated to him.Sher­man, the mid­dle child, named because we liked his dad’s nick­name of Sher­man. Mid­dle name Jaymes. Spelled that way just because we could. If your name […]