Hurricane Harvey

My website was down for a week but I’m okay with that, because my hosting company had more important things to deal with, like the safety of their families. They are based in Houston. Need I say more? Hurricane Harvey first hit Texas nearly a week ago and the continued devastation of Houston and the Read More

Tremendous Talent, Tremendous Loss

I mentioned before how this season’s America’s Got Talent auditions are bringing me to tears and especially so this week. Brandon Rogers, a 29 year old, well respected doctor and well loved young man appeared posthumously on the show. He was taken too young in a car accident in which he was a passenger. His Read More

Truly Inspirational

Ibegan watching America’s Got Talent again this season and I have found myself in tears every episode. I have been so deeply moved by the 12 year old ventriloquist whose parents bought her a puppet to help with her extreme shyness, the severely burned plane crash survivor with the amazing voice, the tiny nine year Read More

It Must be Summer

My how time flies! It is June of 2017 and Father’s Day is tomorrow. We are planning a barbecue with family and friends and amazingly the weather is supposed to be hot and dry. Hard to imagine after the deluge of rain of yesterday. we have had some record rainfall here in Oregon this year Read More

An Enchanted Birthday

W ell, I had the most wonderful birthday yesterday. For the first time in a number of years I had all three of my daughters with me and we all went to Enchanted Forest. Yes, I know you may think it is an odd place for a 56 year old woman and her grown daughters Read More

It’s Snowing!

T he first snow of winter has finally appeared. It isn’t much and won’t last long but it was wonderful to wake up to my world, all of its blemishes and imperfections covered in a blanket of white. How lovely it looks. Okay, I just took down the Christmas tree… I know, I know, but Read More

Wearing My Mom Genes

As I get older it amazes me how much I am looking like my mom at this age. I grew up looking much more like my dad so I still get a shock when I walk past a mirror and get a glimpse of “mom” in it. I’ve begun to resemble her not only in Read More

Here’s To Your Health

Iwatched a documentary over the holidays called, Fat Sick & Nearly Dead. It was about an Australian man who was obese, exhausted and had a rare autoimmune disease that made his life miserable. He decides to go on an organic juice fast which works so wonderfully for him that he travels across the US with Read More

2012

Well, it was a wonderful Christmas. We went to the candlelight service at church on Christmas Eve, then went home and decorated the tree. One of my daughters was in California with her boyfriend’s family, but everyone else plus a good friend was able to celebrate at our house. We had good food, good company Read More

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