Unwrapping Joy
Lately I’ve been conducting personal interviews to introduce interesting people to the readers of our newspaper. What I’ve noticed is some subjects are anxious to detail their accomplishments while others … Continue reading
Overcoming Wimpy-ness!
Recently, my husband and I resigned ourselves to the necessity of refinishing both our extensive decks and the wooden railings that surround them. We’d been postponing the inevitable so we … Continue reading
Living the Dream
One of our family homes was situated in the Rocky Mountains. The house was oddly shaped and small, but the upper deck provided a view of Pike’s Peak, and the … Continue reading
The Fragile Bliss of Ignorance or How I Learned to Avoid Blowing Up
Ignorance is bliss only until it blows up on you. Recently, my husband went to a local mechanic about a distinctive gasoline smell in our car’s engine. The mechanic said … Continue reading
Outside the Box
What does a flower feel when it finally opens and feels the touch of honeybees? I don’t know, but maybe it’s a little like the experience I had today. In … Continue reading
How Can I Listen When I Don’t Want to Hear?
Blah, blah, blah. Sometimes my ears hear a lot of blah, so I don’t want to listen. Sadly, the person saying the blah blah may be somebody I shouldn’t ignore—a … Continue reading
This Moment as a Memory
What if today turned out to be your last day of life and you would eventually look back on it from the Other Side? What would you notice? Are you … Continue reading
Smearing Color into Life
Do you ever feel like your life has slipped into shades of gray? You peer at your problems and they all seem familiar, as though they already happened. Deja vu. … Continue reading
What I Learned from the People of Belize
In my mind, a vacation that consists of tramping from site to site with a bunch of people just like me isn’t worth the effort and cost of a trip … Continue reading
Weary of Weather?
For the people who are SICK, SICK, SICK of winter snow, here’s a different perspective. Today the humidity in our area lay at 5%. Yes, five percent. No typo. We … Continue reading
