Today, the Slice of Life Challenge Continues. The post that follows is for Day 5/Year 3. My background is kind of weird. Basically, I’ve had two professions in my life so far. In both, I legitimized my knowledge as much as I could by getting Master’s degrees in each of the disciplines. Currently, I am…
Recently, I’ve given a lot of thought into the cultural phenomenon of talking over someone. You might know this better as interrupting. We spend a lot of time in schools today on character development and teaching kindness. And, while that is okay and I do understand the need for it, I think that in some…
My Carpenter album collection is something I am not sure I’ll ever part with. Right now, it is at our cabin where we have a Crosby LP Album player, along with some other 1970’s pop music albums. It’s not a collection that I’ve added to over the years, or even played each year over the…
Over the last four days, I’ve been in a hospital environment three times, on three different days. The first was emergent. That and the second visit were unplanned and a third visit, today’s, was a scheduled visit. None of the visits brought bad or unexpected news, so you can relax, this is not a post…
Today is Poetry Friday. I decided to write about Santa Fe, New Mexico as that is where my husband and I just went on vacation. My posted poems are never fine-tuned, so I hope you find it acceptable. But, along that vein, I think that it might be interesting to pull my poetry posts (not…
Today, I am inspired to write a short post about staying healthy. As I have written before, staying healthy has become more of a priority for me as a woman of 50, plus. Going to the YMCA is becoming a regular routine. I actually find myself looking forward to going! I think that part of…
Do you know of the children’s book, The Five Dog Night? It is a short story of two old people who are neighbors. An old woman in the story worries about another character, an old man, during a harsh winter. She keeps checking on his welfare and is confused by his response. Each time she…
A couple of years ago I took issue with a post by another blogger about the unnecessity of being thanked for good deeds or small tokens, like a candy bar. I did not comment publically but was very dismayed. In essence, this author, who is an adult, said it didn’t matter if people said thank…
Almost nine years ago (I cannot believe that much time has passed), I started a parent group for those families with children that had been identified as talented and gifted (TAG) in our school district. I did it out of great respect for our TAG teacher, who I asked if I could be of help…
Monday evening I was at parent-teacher conferences. My youngest son is a senior in high school and is currently involved in a large solo art project in a nearby community. He is painting a mural on an outdoor wall at a business. It is large – nearly 40 feet long. But, it is October in…