Our Graduation Trip
Hubby and I have attended lots of graduations with our kids. It started with both graduating from high school, then both graduating with bachelor’s degrees. Our son walked again with another bachelor’s degree, then walked with a master’s degree. A few years later, our daughter walked to get her master’s degree and this month, she […]
A Trip Back to Boise
Hubby and I recently spent several days in Boise where I lived for 13 years (he lived there 12). I loved that place and still do in spite of the heavy traffic. It was comforting to drive streets I knew so well, although some of them have new buildings and stores and taller trees and […]
Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety Jig
In case you don’t know, that’s from an old nursery rhyme I learned as a child: “To market, to market, to buy a fat pig, home again, home again, jiggety jig.” There are additional verses about buying other stuff including a fat hog, a plum bun, and a fat dog. Whoever wrote the little poem […]
Change of Seasons
It’s time for Hubby and me to move back north for the summer. The days in Texas will start getting too hot for me to function well, and the cool evenings in South Dakota will let me sit outside to think and daydream and the days are longer. Plus, we’ve never had to go through […]
A Trip Back
Hubby and I traveled to College Station and Texas A&M to see Daughter and SIL last weekend. She had a short break in her very busy schedule and wanted us to come share it with her. The weather was beautiful, and the bluebonnets were blooming in the area. Something is always going on campus. This […]
Returning from the Sea
During a workshop I took last summer, the presenter talked about holding a writing conference aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. The idea sucked me right in, and I signed up. I invited my daughter to go, but it didn’t work with her schedule. My sister jumped at the chance when I asked her. Last […]
Foggy Days
For Christmas, I gave my daughter a certificate good for three days at an AirBnB as a writing retreat. She cashed in on that gift this past week. I told her she could go alone, go with her hubby, go with her dad, or go with me. She picked me to go with her, along […]
It’s 2025!
I admit it. I’m old. I remember the old cartoons, comic books, and TV shows talking about futuristic stuff in the 21st century. It seemed impossibly far away. But here it is, 2025. It sounds like something from a book rather than being on the calendar. We enjoyed a quiet Christmas with Daughter and Son-in-law […]