I have the amazing fortune to have an exceptionally gifted artist as a child. I get to call her a child for a few more weeks only because she will soon be 18. We spent most of today at a series of college portfolio reviews, and she received glowing reviews. The college rep from SAIC [...]
So…this morning, after the usual running around to finally get the kids out of the house, I open the front door to find a neighbor (I can’t remember her name so I’ll call her Mrs. Ben) walking up our walkway.
Mrs. Ben: “Good Morning Eileen!” Can you help me pull my stockings up this morning?” My [...]
There was a time when I read blogs simply as a distraction. Something to do instead of housework, cooking, or whatever. I first started reading fitness blogs and stuck with that sort of blog for a long time. But somewhere along the way I discovered that there were blogs.about.other.things. I also found that there are some [...]
One of the things I plan to do on this site is highlight really cool things I find in my own travels on the web. And one of my most favorite blogs is written by Christine Kane. Her music is awesome too…but that’s a story for another day.
The following piece was written by Christine. [...]
Yeah, so, a few weeks ago I accidentally deleted ALL of my posts and my backup.
Yes, totally brilliant. I’ll blame it on fatigue, or low blood sugar, or global warming.
Anyway, I do have backups of some of my posts and have put a few back up.
The rest…probably won’t go back up since I wasn’t all [...]
After hearing me lament about not having enough time to do something I wished I could do, a former boss that told me something that seemed completely ridiculous to me at the time. He said, “We all have the same amount of time.”
That statement really annoyed me. There I was – a newly single mother [...]
I attended a funeral yesterday, for a lady who spent 83 fabulous years on this planet. Listening to someone’s life being reviewed in a eulogy is a profound experience.
While I knew her mostly as Grannie, this lady had a name. And each time her name was spoken in this eulogy, I jumped a little. Her [...]
