As I write this it’s Monday May 27, 2013. Memorial Day. A day off of work for Gerry and I. I’m upstairs in my home office hiding out as three hard-working landscapers work in my back yard severely cutting back the treasured laurel trees that line our back fence and provide privacy from our too-close…
Month: May 2013
A Challenge
By the time my memoir Two Hearts launched last year I was exhausted. I had spent the previous four years writing, revising, remembering, and compiling my story into something that, according to many readers, reads like a novel. The elation I felt the first time I held a proof copy of the book in my…
Taking Time For One’s Self
For the past few years I’ve worked a flex schedule that allows me to take every second Friday off. I hold those days sacred, “protect the flex” becomes my mantra when I look around at the work on my plate and wonder if I can afford a day away from the office. I know, having…
Menopause: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
The weather has been outstanding here in the Pacific Northwest over the past week or so. The sun has been shining and the temperature has been in the mid to high 70s and even reached over 80 on a few days. I’ve been in my element and spent as much time as possible outside soaking…
Nine Months Left On the Retirement Countdown Chain
For the past few years Gerry and I have been talking about taking up photography together as a retirement hobby. He has a background in the craft that goes back to his original 35mm camera, actual film, and developing his own photos. Me, I cut my early photography teeth on my mom’s Kodak Instamatic. Recently,…