• A Foot in the Past

    Do you ever look at a photo and wish you could do a Mary Poppins and pop into the picture for a visit? I’d love to do that with this photo. I’ve always been drawn the villages built of stone and that are venerable with age, places filled with the ghosts of people who used…

  • 10 Reasons It is Okay to be Old as Dirt

    This is the first August in years that went by at the speed of light. Usually August is something I slog through, beat up by heat, humidity, and the knowledge that I’ll be a year older by the end. And I’ll be lucky if the a/c doesn’t crap out on my “big day.” I’m still…

  • When The Pavement Ends Or How to Die “Right”

    Sometimes we choose to go off road and sometimes life takes off the pavement and bounces us around. Then it dumps us in a gully. We can try to get back on the familiar, the paved road, but Life Happens. The gully is now our new “road.” It’s called Big Life Changes. Or, if we’re…

  • On Sunsets and Hope

    When I was a little girl, the setting sun was a really large clock of sorts, indicating that play time was about to end. If we didn’t straggle home voluntarily, then the summons to supper, bath and bed would come from our Mom. Sometimes with a lot of emphasis. I loved summers, because the sun…

  • Daylight Savings Time is OVER. Boom!

    This is how I look the first day of Daylight Savings Time. I am not a morning person. The only good part of DST is when it leaves and I get my hour back. And I’d rather not lose it in the first place. So today I’m very thankful that DST is ending. (And if…

  • Are You Depends-Able?

    When I first latched onto this photo, I had no idea what I’d write about. I mean, it’s people in Depends. Runners in Depends. I don’t run and I don’t need Depends. Yet. Not saying I couldn’t have used some during the #hermitroadtrip, but didn’t. But I liked the theme of their quirky choice. Each…

  • Traveling With the Parents, Part 3: Turned Around (aka #hermitroadtrip)

    I’m not sure if it is our age, the prolonged effects of the #hermitroadtrip, or the on-the-road-junk-food-diet. Or maybe it is traveling in a different hemisphere from our own? Whatever the reason, the hubs and I (mostly the hubs, though) have lost the ability to tell right from our left. It has made our road…

  • Traveling with the Parents Part Deux (aka #hermitroadtrip)

    So Our Daughter’s Traveling With the Parents hit a new low the other day. I won’t go into what happened inside the store (which was a bit like herding cats), because it pales when compared to what happened outside. We had made our purchases  and then headed outside with our cart Full of Stuff. Our…

  • I Miss Hanging Upside Down…

    What do you miss about being a kid? This photo, taken by the hubs, took caught my eye. We didn’t do a lot of carnivals when I was a kid, because money was always tight. No, what caught my eye was the stuffed toys hanging upside down. I used to hang upside down a LOT…

  • On Clean Houses and LIFE.

    We had family this past weekend and I love, love, love it.  We had much chatting. We had much hugging. We remembered and we played with and hugged and kissed babies. Yum! One of the things I do to prepare for incoming is to clean. Or, on good months, I find someone to come shovel…