Getting these new floors was kind of like getting a whole new house!
Lorena
The house looks different, sounds different, smells different… and since everything was moved and moved again and some of it moved back to where it was but some not… I’m…
2024
Home again, home again
Of course my house looks NOTHING like what it does in this ten-years-old picture I’m using for my post image… and I have a different car… and I think that…
Alas, Babylon
I grew up on dystopian science fiction. I was fascinated with reading about how people might survive after the collapse of civilization as we know it… I’d have little daydreams…
Am I there yet?
So, the more I think about it, and reflect on all the travel I’ve done this year, I’ve decided that I love seeing places and things I haven’t seen before…
I want
I want a big red car I want fancy new guitar I want a house with a big back deck And I want to come home with a big paycheck…
Brain Dump
I have a lot of things floating around in my head taking up space, so I went to do a “brain dump” the other day and I realized after staring…
Trying to reason with hurricane season
With apologies to Jimmy Buffett, you can’t. End of song! So much shorter than the original! It seemed like Helene took a full week to get to us; Milton will…
I’m sorry, Citibank, you want me to what?
Scene One: me, on the Citibank website, September 20th, going to pay my credit card. *sees five transactions that posted on the 18th that I didn’t make* *sees that two…
Back to life, back to reality
I just looked up the lyrics of that song, to see if there was a good stanza or something I could use in this post, something to tie my topic…
Does anyone even read travel blogs?
I was looking at my unpublished drafts, and I have five or six started-but-never-finished unpublished blog posts about my trip to Ireland in April. And I only barely blogged about…
I’m so tired
I’m not sure if this will be a “Monday Musings” post or a “Rants” post but here we go… I’m not tired as in “I need a nap” (although….). I’m…
Dear anyone who is grieving
Back when I was in the hospital in May, the doctor there didn’t like that I was having trouble breathing and that my oxygen was so low. Well, one of…