2023 already! How did that happen so suddenly? I must have been dozing at the switch. But here it is, ready or not—I’ll just have to brace myself to do it again! I’m not complaining. I love the process of reflecting on the past year and considering some resolutions for… Read More »A Shiny New Year!
I moved on December 29 of this year. Christmas was over, and New Year was spent in a frenzy of settling into my new home, a condo. Moving took all my attention and energy. I scarcely remember the holiday season. But this year is different. I am settled, much more… Read More »The First Christmas in My New Home
In the past, I’ve always enjoyed decorating at Christmas. But I scaled down my social contacts in 2019, due to the Covid scare, and in 2020 and 2021 I knew I wouldn’t be home for Christmas, so the boxes of decorations stayed securely in my storage space, untouched. But this… Read More »Decorating for Christmas
I’m a big sissy when it comes to cold weather. We’ve had a beautiful spring, summer and fall, which fade into distant memory as the weather changes. I’m not speaking for everyone I know—I’m sure some people love this season of dropping temperatures, darker days and increased rainfall! But I… Read More »Brrrrrrrrrr!
When you were a kid, you knew what friends were for. You lived for having friendships. Your life would be worthless, you believed, if you didn’t have friends. You wanted to do everything with them, have meals with them, share happy times with them, even have sleep-overs with them. Your… Read More »That’s What Friends Are For
At the risk of being repetitive, I have one more post about spring. It’s April on the West Coast, and I just can’t help myself—it’s a glorious time of year here and one of my favorite months. This is partly due to the fact that it’s my mother’s and sister’s… Read More »Capricious April Ushers in the Beginning of Spring
March is here, and it’s as crazy as ever. It’s raining hard one minute, and the next minute the sun is shining. All this to the steady hum of the wind, hammering against my window. Every time I look out, it’s blowing in a different direction—tree branches bowing every which… Read More »March Madness
It takes dedication and self-discipline to maintain a blog. I was able to do it for six years, then quite abruptly stopped. I can’t remember the exact circumstance that led to this year-long pause, but I can say that I’m now impatient to get going again. To those of you… Read More »Another stab at starting up again
We woke up like little children on Christmas morning. “What’s that yellow blob in the sky?” we asked. No, we hadn’t lost our minds or our collective memory. It’s just that we haven’t seen the sun in weeks or months, it seems. And no, we are not imagining it.… Read More »That Strange Blob in the Sky
I hear it everywhere—“Time just flies by!”“Where has the time gone?” It’s a sentiment I hear more and more among people around me. And I feel it too, especially at this time of year when there are extra things to do. Three weeks ago, as I sorted through our Christmas… Read More »Time Flows Through All Lives Equally, So They Say
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