Look Where I Was Today!

I have always wanted to go.  This was my first time and it was totally unexpected!  My daughter and I drove from Baltimore (where she is looking for an apartment for when she starts school next month) to Bethesday to visit my former sister in law.  We went to dinner then she drove us around [...]

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It Only Gets Harder

I remember the days when the kids and I would travel. They each had a backpack with their stuff and we used one or two suitcases for clothes for the four of us. I would plan the trip and get input from them.
When we drove from Los Angeles to the Texas gulf coast. [...]

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Xuan

A comment on a recent post of mine reminded me of a time in high school when something I did effected someone in a way in which I was not aware.  Until months later, I didn’t have a clue of what it had meant to one person in particular.
By the time I got to plan [...]

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The Explosion

While I earned top grades in high school, my downfall has always been math with science taking a close second. It’s not that I did poorly in science classes, I just didn’t enjoy it like I did social studies, language arts, journalism, and foreign languages. Consequently, I found myself lacking a year of [...]

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Stubborness

While commenting on a blog post the other week, I was reminded of the time my daughter would not cooperate with the dentist.  She was about five.  It was the year she began kindergarten.  I had taken her and her brother, who was about 8, to the dentist for a check up.  Tony cooperated beautifully.  [...]

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The Paint Job

My daughter has a boyfriend who has been out of a job since January when he was laid off from his in-house tech technician at Portland Gas & Electric.  I had a lot of things that needed doing.  He offered to do some of them for me in exchange for meals while he was working.  [...]

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Astoria

While my sister was visiting, my daughter took us to Astoria, OR, which is the furthest north one can travel on the coast side of Oregon before crossing into Washington state.  The picture below was taken from the parking lot of the Astoria Column.  The bridge you see takes one from Oregon to Washington.

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Sometimes Life Sucks

Just when we think things are going well, life throws us a curve ball.
I spent the day sick in bed and very worried about my own health.  I woke up extremely dizzy and unable to get around the house without hanging on to the walls.  It became apparent to me that it was, most likely, [...]

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Look Mom, No Slip!

In a recent post, I told about a picture that I used for a collage at my brother’s memorial service and how my mom had hated it because her slip was showing in the picture.   I was encouraged to “fix it” and post it.  I did.  Below you’ll find the picture of a much younger [...]

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