First, please notice that I specifically did not say “my last” blog post. I have not quit, abandoned, given up, or otherwise stopped blogging. I did take a rabbit trail of sorts, but all with good intentions . It was like this. As I was minding my own business, writing a post, laying out my ideasContinue reading “A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to My Most Recent Blog Post…”
Category Archives: Retirement life
Of Coffee Shares, Link Parties, Writing Challenges, and other Lovely Things
Do you blog? Is the experience of blogging different from what you expected when you began? Tell me how.
My August Reading
#whatsonyourbookshelfchallenge The Reading Challenge I love to read and love writing, as a blogger that goes without saying. But much of my reading is taken up by professional reading needs and so recreational reading is something that generally happens only on vacation. While I had come up with a plan for improving my reading capacity,Continue reading “My August Reading”
My Summer Reading Plan
Reading IS fundamental and we have to make time to do it! That said, it is something I struggle with, what about you?
Help! I’m a dinosaur!
I am a fairly smart cookie, but no one is going to hire me to be a tech guru.
INTRODUCING SHEBA
Sheba is our fourth rescue dog in thirty years. When we lost Misty in the Fall of 2019, my husband and I had an unspoken agreement, or assumption, that we would be adopting another rescue dog. There were certainly some concerns, we are not young (sigh!), we are retired, well, partially retired in my case,Continue reading “INTRODUCING SHEBA”
The Collection
Don’t get nervous! Although I am a pastor, it’s not the Sunday offering that the title refers to, but the pitfalls of being a collector. Although my most cherished collection is my seashells, I have collected one other thing in recent years; turtles. Not live turtles but carved, ceramic, glass, resin, steel, all kinds ofContinue reading “The Collection”
Proof of Life
No, it’s not what you might think. Perhaps I should have written”proof of having lived.” Except for two years in a two-bedroom apartment, my husband and I are living in the smallest home we have ever occupied in our thirty-three years of marriage. I love our home, and truth be told I still have aContinue reading “Proof of Life”
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