Merry Christmas 2018
Along with millions around the world, I suspect, I watched as the flag-draped casket of former President George H.W. Bush was ceremoniously, and reverently, carried into the National Cathedral. As each of the eulogists spoke, I listened, eyes glistening, as they recounted the ways he had touched them, encouraged them, and left positive, indelible fingerprints on a global scale. I know this is a strange way to begin a Christmas letter, but it got me thinking about the fingerprints left on my own life, and those I’m touching with my own. Memories come easily at this time of year, don’t they? Like a Christmas stage continually set, my mind can immediately return to visit the beloved...
Retro Road Podcast – Episode 103 – All Board! Part 2
Welcome aboard to our final episode on American train travel! While we talked extensively about the sleeping car in a previous episode, today we cover all the other types of cars on Amtrak’s trains, and how they truly set train travel apart from other common modes of transportation. We also talk about chemtrails, force fields, and grits, so, obviously, you don’t want to miss it! Enjoy the show! You can listen here, or subscribe on iTunes, where we’d love to have your review! You can also listen on Stitcher and give us a rating, if you’d like. And, of course, you can listen right here on the blog. Are you on Facebook? Well, you can find us there, too! Give us a like and follow along at the...
Return to Eden
Okay, maybe not actual Eden, since the door was closed on that with a bite of an apple, but I've been thinking about how things were before that fateful day. What got me thinking about it was watching my youngest grandson, Landry. Since I've been absent on the blog, and really haven't written about him since he was born (outside of Facebook), let me give you a few stats: He's darling. Obviously. I mean, just look at him! He's almost 16 months old. He's BLONDE. We don't think he always will be (his brown-haired dad was also blonde as a baby), but it's such a novelty in the landscape of our family that we are all in a perpetual state of wonder over it. It's also WILD, with a thousand...
On Politics, Weddings, Full House, and Hate. Basically, All the Things.
It has been so long since I’ve written in this place that I discovered the theme we’d originally built the site on was no longer working with the current WordPress platform, and I had to have my web designer update it to work. That’s why it looks slightly different, but – BONUS – you can easily read from a handheld device now.
#winning.
A Quick Note
For my regular and/or email readers, I just wanted to let you know that I’m having significant problems with my computer, and no time at all to deal with it! I haven’t been writing on my blog lately because of it, and, very sweetly, have had a few people reach out to be sure I was okay.
I am! Thank you for your concern.