I spent a lifetime, it seems, not participating in family events and putting my family first in my life. That ended many years ago, but I still spent twenty years isolating them away from us. Not because I didn’t love them but because who I was with didn’t feel comfortable. Even after the relationship ending,…
Tahoe Days After three days in Washington visiting our oldest son and his family, we headed onto the third leg of this journey. We had such a good time in our visit and although our son was hard at work a lot of time, we maximized our time with him, his wife and our granddaughters….
We began our annual sojourn to Lake Tahoe with a little twist this year. We delivered a truck to a friend, went to see our oldest son and his family and then on our way, finally to Lake Tahoe, joining our other son and family for a week of hiking, wine tasting, boat rides, bike…
I haven’t been anywhere lately. I’ve been working on health, projects, and mindset. I spent a period of my early twenties not focusing and feeling overwhelmed with everything in my life. I was able to resolve that for near forty years, but here I am in my mid-sixties, and I’m face to face with it…
In our lives, we start as wee tadpoles forming into little humans. We are created with the genetic code of our parents and all the lines of generations prior. Our traits are bred, oh we certainly pick things up along the journey that adapt our natural instinct, but when the root basis of an idea…
Many of you probably don’t know what at mudbug is, let alone that there are people that eat them by the scoop full or in some cases, scoops. What’s a mudbug you ask? It is a crawdad or freshwater crayfish. Those little backward walking, in defense, critters that look akin to a lobster but on…
The title might be somewhat unclear. My son-in-law’s father was recently diagnosed with a stage four cancer. He is in his mid-eighties and lives a fairly healthy lifestyle. As a result of my daughter realizing a perspective that she doesn’t want to lose either of us, she has had this urgent message to Jen and…
Every two years, since moving to Texas, we host Christmas for all our kids and grandkids. It has grown from seventeen to twenty people by counting all three generations. Then we have an aunt, uncle, great grandpa, niece, and several friends in and out, bringing the total to just shy of thirty. Our kids are…
Since moving to Texas, we have been looking forward to the time that we would get to have grandkids here with us sans parents. Two months ago, we finally got our chance to do just that. Troy and Jess arranged to go to Mexico for a week to celebrate their ten-year anniversary. As a gift…
Every once in a while, just as you think you are figuring life out and all it has to give you, from nowhere, you’re thrown a curveball that makes you stand back and ponder. It comes in many forms and can be something very inward or openly involving others. One such moment happened to me…
