Who thought a road trip was a good idea anyway? After a 10-day visit from the kids, home was calling. I volunteered to ride back to Colorado with them to help curb the chaos of travel with a [Read more...]
Are you kidding me?? Me who lives careful about where I go and who I go near because of the littles and elder folk I love—and wear my mask and avoid busy places and sanitize 10x a day. And now they [Read more...]
Some things we never forget. Like that first fumbling kiss in the darkened movie theater. Not impressed. Or the knee-knocking reprimand from a policeman--after being stopped for speeding my first [Read more...]
2020 tiptoed in lamblike. Now halfway gone, we reel as the year morphed from sheep to monster. Our unprecedented events—rampant disease, record unemployment, and hate-filled riots—forever splayed [Read more...]
Downtown crowds make me wary in light of the mass riots. But my unease defused once I realized the mood of this sign waving cluster. They did it right. A peaceful protest with a code of [Read more...]
When will we get back to normal? The question rolls off our tongues with frustration. A portion of doctors and news channels report one thing while others assert the opposite. Leaving us to ponder [Read more...]
(This photo shared by a dear friend in Minneapolis today) Chaos in the streets strikes fear as we view these disturbing images, yet chaos in the medical field parallels the unrest. In the face of [Read more...]
I messed up big time. Those words zinged like a wind-up car ricocheting through my brain. What was I thinking? The news reports showed multitudes of airports with deserted corridors and [Read more...]
I was losing the tug-of-war game big time--to a puppy...Stretched to the max, he yanked at my sweater until I wrestled the fabric from his grip. Once a beloved work sweater, when it became a favorite [Read more...]
I knew we were in trouble when my inner alarm began to screech. The black clouds boiled, hurling angry rain at my porch. And when the winds roared fierce, pushing the deluge horizontal to the soggy [Read more...]