I am going to be away from this for a while. Just doing some reassess­ing of my life.Thanks for lis­ten­ing to me all this time.Later

I was priv­i­leged to have heard a pro­gram on NPR that was amaz­ing. The per­son being inter­viewed was a Charles Senate(sp?) who is a Boston Globe Reporter. He was in Iraq at the time the war started and gave an elo­quent, insight­ful, intel­li­gent com­men­tary about his first time there and times sub­se­quent. I can­not say […]

If you were look­ing for some­one who is pres­i­den­tial, who took a prob­lem and imme­di­ately stepped up to the plate to bring it to the open instead of wait­ing to see what became of it…if you were look­ing for a straight­for­ward, lets look at this for what it is, what it means, and what I […]

My youngest daugh­ter is hav­ing “a ter­ri­ble, hor­ri­ble, no good very bad WEEK”. I just might have to start call­ing her Alexan­der. Hang in there Moochie…some weeks are like that.…“even in Aus­tralia.” PS… if any of you know my daughter.…please drop off some choco­late, choco­late muffins…I think she could use half a dozen right now!! […]

Don’t know if this will make any­one feel any bet­ter, espe­cially since I just heard the cities, where my kids reside, is sup­posed to get snow tomor­row, but I just saw a cou­ple robins in our yard. Just in time for the first day of spring. Now if that doesn’t lift your spir­its then you […]

Well the big 30!!! Happy birth­day Matthew!! You are prob­a­bly one of the best men I have ever known. Your humor, stead­fast­ness, love of life, wife, par­ents and friends is amaz­ing to watch. You work hard and play even harder.You are gen­tle when it is called for and fiercely tough when you have to be. […]

I“d like to tell you a story. A story about love and ill­ness and the bless­ing I received being wit­ness to just such a story. There are many hor­ror sto­ries about “in-laws” and how they have some­times made a mar­riage dif­fi­cult. I have been so blessed in that, in the two chil­dren who have married, […]

I wish I could come back on here hav­ing just spent a won­der­ful week on a beach some­where warm, lis­ten­ing to the waves, with noth­ing more to worry about than if I remem­bered to have my hubby put sun­tan lotion on my back. Alas, that is not the case. Whew…what a week. The friend who […]

Hey any loyal read­ers I still have left…it has been a long week with lots of wait­ing and wor­ry­ing about a friend but I am home now and will, I hope, be back at this won­der­ful world of blog­ging within days…hang in there. It was nice to come home, nicer still to see that the […]

Today I have been think­ing of… a friend who once again is going in to see her doc­tor today for blood clots that keep form­ing, even though she is on med­i­cine to keep that from hap­pen­ing…my sister-in-law who is being admit­ted to a hos­pi­tal today, that she has waited sev­eral weeks to get into, hoping […]