Last month, just moments before we were getting ready to say goodbye to our Florida life I was musing to Pete about how fast it all seemed to be happening. Buying the new house, packing the old house, the end of school, the going-away party…it just seemed to be whirling by at the speed of [...]
Posts under ‘finding me’
Rice and Buttons
I’ll bet you’re thinking there’s some exquisite inside joke in that title.
And there probably is.
But that’s not what this post is about.
This is about the most infuriating bowl of rice I’ve ever encountered.
I’ve mentioned before that I had a stroke in July 2005. The months that followed were filled with physical therapy.
Lift these weights.
Walk those [...]
My final wishes
Sitting in a hospital tonight with my husband, listening to the sound of his father’s restless stirring and the mechanical beeps that are uniquely hospital-driven, it reminded me that I have already laid down the law on my funeral.
And before you sit there and scratch your head thinking I’m really weird for having preferences about [...]
Do I have to have a reason?
Why do I blog??
It’s a question that’s been floating around, asking people to define the reasons what drives them to share so much of themselves to the Internet….to bare your soul to strangers. It’s probably been floating around as long as people have been self-publishing their thoughts…long years before I ever started.
I blog because I [...]
More NOT talking about my house
On this last day of our stay here in GA, the kids and I ventured north to check out where our *hopefully* new residence will be. We scoped out the neighborhood - OOH, is that an in-ground pool? We want to make friends with THAT family! YOWZERS, check out that tree fort, they are definitely [...]

















