More This ‘n That

I spent the evening browsing through family blogs … my kids and the nieces and nephews … What fun!    It brings back so many memories of raising my own family when I read the clever things the children say and the struggles the mothers have to keep everything under control.    Sometimes it doesn’t seem very [...]

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Wednesday’s This ‘n That

My mind is in a stupor of thought lately when it comes to writing.    I have sooo many things running through my head lately it’s hard to collect enough words on the same topic to write anything worth reading.   We’re trying to get ready to go to Washington for six months … sorting, discarding, combining.   [...]

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Waiting for "Take-out"

      We stopped at Pizza Factory today on Sunset to get “cheesy bread” to go.   We thought it would be quick … but while Lynn was inside waiting 15 minutes for our order I got a little board and the only thing to play with was my camera.    There was plenty to look at as [...]

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This ‘n That

1.  The Inauguration … watching it on television and the people of all colors and backgrounds there together getting along and celebrating stirred a lot of emotions, but I have decided to keep them to myself for now.   2.  Technology … I’ve been preparing for a talk I’ve been asked to give this weekend at [...]

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Wednesday’s This ‘n That

I do most of my NaNoWriMo noveling in the middle of the night when all is quiet.   Thus I find it is 3:30 in the morning and I am struggling to put my characters to bed so they can’t continue to bang around and stir up trouble while I put myself to bed.   I find [...]

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Visual DNA Test

This was a fun email I received today.    It doesn’t take very long to complete and I found the results kind of interesting. This is not bad it came close…try it ! When you click on the link, a series of about 15 pictures will come up. Click on a photo in that category that [...]

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A Collage of Thoughts

I woke up this morning with the theme song to Superman running through my mind.   I took that as a good sign, which it was until about an hour ago when it switched to “Sandman’s Comin’”.     It’s hard to ignore that power of suggestion at this time of the day. Here’s a pretty clever political [...]

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Bits of This & That

I missed church today because of a hacking cough that I was sure wouldn’t be appreciated.     I could have taken my extra strength prescription narcotic cough syrup, which is the only thing that stops it, but that didn’t didn’t seem like a good answer since it puts me to sleep and makes me drool.     That [...]

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Twelve Things I Never Expected …

My niece had an interesting blog where she listed twelve things she didn’t expect she would be doing or have done by this time of her life.   it got me to thinking what I would write about myself … 1.  I would have never thought I’d have been the Executive Director of a  non profit [...]

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Just a Brief Word

Just here briefly as we are still camping and our site doesn’t have Internet … but I had to give you this link to a front page feature article in the newspaper about Ryan’s music.   In the newspaper there were also three large pictures of him in his studio. We’re having a great time with [...]

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