Daughter: How Participate in Meetings like a College Student
My daughter left her job of 10 years as Director of Extended Studies at West Texas A&M University to pursue her PhD in Interdisciplinary Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU) TAMU has many student chapters of professional organizations, so despite my age difference and experience, I decided to join one nearest my field of interest. […]
Daughter: Starting College
Forget the new sports car and a younger blonde at a mid-life crisis! Go back to college! For 10 years, I was the director of a busy department at West Texas University overseeing self-paced credit students, kids’ camps, and community ed classes which always tied me to my phone and email. Working on the university […]
A Trip to Oregon
Time with family is always precious, and our trip to Oregon included lots of it. For three days, both of our children and grandchildren were together, something that is increasingly rare. Knowing that tends to make our time together even more special and appreciated. Hubby and I flew this time, using our frequent flyer miles […]
The Challenges of Curious Grandsons
I have two extremely smart grandsons that we are traveling to see. Being with them is challenging due to their precocious curiosity about EVERYTHING. They ask questions about stuff far above my knowledge base, then tell me the answers. Why are they asking me? Is this a grandma test? I usually fail it. Their latest achievement […]
We’re Home Again
After spending five months in Texas, Hubby and I are home again in South Dakota. Our last week in Texas was a full one. We traveled along wildflower-lined roads to College Station again. This time we went to a lecture by the CIA director, Bill Burns and a lecture by a woman who works at […]
The Night Sky
When Daughter and SIL were recruiting Hubby and I to housesit for them this winter, the carrot they kept waving in front of us was “we have a hot tub you can enjoy.” Hubby and I have never been hot tub people so I can’t say it was a much of a lure. Hubby is […]
Gig ‘Em, Aggies!
Our daughter has joined a cult. We don’t mind because at the end of her tenure she’ll get a cape, a doctorate, and the ability to be an expert in ergonomics. That seems a good trade-off for three years of work. Hubby and I visited our daughter at her new home beside Texas A&M University […]
Sometimes…
Sometimes something you looked forward too with a lot of anticipation turns out not as expected. That pretty much describes the past two weeks. It wasn’t my best year at the West Texas Writers Academy. I took a class about writing westerns thinking it would cover how to include historic events, what was realistic in […]