Okay, I work in the political arena. I have heard the stories of opponents registering the other candidate’s name as a website domain. I have heard stories of opponents looking for dirt on other candidates. Today, I saw the proof in the pudding. A website had been wiped out. Seems, according to the candidate, a… Continue reading Politics – The Ugly Side
While the weather has not yet shown to be true autumn weather – the forecast people say that is coming this week, the smells as I was out this morning are definitely fall. In the thick fog, you can smell the testing of the wood stove. The smell hangs fragrantly in the air, even overpowering… Continue reading The Smells of Fall
No, not an actual picture but the scene I am about to describe. I went out for my morning constitutional today. Mind you, today is October 7th – the height of fall in upstate NY. I wore shorts and a tank top, not even a tee shirt. The temperature when I left my house was… Continue reading What’s wrong with this picture?
It is fall so as I have said before, it is road trip time. This road trip came with a little mother-daughter bonding, too – just an extra plus. I took my 20 year old daughter to her first ever big time football game. She goes to basketball and hockey all the time at her… Continue reading Road Trip #2
It is fall! \’Nuf said. I have been off apple picking! My 20 year old daughter is home for her only real visit for the fall semester. She will be home right before Thanksgiving but she is bringing a gang with her for a concert. This is she and mom time. We went apple picking… Continue reading Apple Picking
My oldest daughter has always been a homebody. She love college life, though, and Niagara in particular. This past summer she stayed up there for the summer working. Summer work is hard to find in our area and what she was doing up there paid more. Anyway, she was home for three weekends all summer… Continue reading My Daughter’s Visiting
I have been the mother to many athletes. My oldest son played soccer, lacrosse, tried football. The next son was a big football player – state champions his senior year – and a huge lacrosse player, even his first year in college. His twin sister ran cross country for a couple years. The younger daughter… Continue reading Exercise and Eating
Using recycled and “found” items to make art is a pastime/hobby of mine. The problem is I consider it art but a lot of real “artsy” people do not. That’s okay with me. I am happy in my little space in the world. I had just sat down to watch the Jets and Bills fight… Continue reading Honda Civic
This writing might be more appropriately entitled the obis. It is a mess in my garage but now that the Volvo is gone, I am working slowly on cleaning it out and clearing out the kids’ clothing. Any mother – and maybe a few fathers out there – of more than one children will understand.… Continue reading The Garage
My sister and I are two years apart in age. We are closer to millenia apart in how we live and where we prefer to live. She left the area where we grew up about five years after college. She lived in the San Jose, CA area for ten years or so. Then, she lived… Continue reading Road Trip Number One
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