I’m unsettled! There isn’t really any other way to say it. I have so many ideas and no real course to get any of them done. I keep notes on my phone with these flashes of brilliance. My ideas are so detailed for the moment the inspiration hits but most simply fade away or become…
Every year, in May, we celebrate the joy of Motherhood. Some do this by recognizing all mothers everywhere. Some celebrate just their mom. But me, it is all generations of moms from my lineage and all those in my life currently. Most of all, I celebrate and thank my mom for the life she gave…
I’ve been on quest to find the perfect brew pub. Not perfection on some magical scale, no, my quest is fueled by several things making a place perfect. The reality is that there might be, nope, definitely will be many by my standards. Amber, porter, stout, and an occasional fruity wheat ale if in California….
Growing up, I guess until the age of 45, I never thought the tropics were something I would love. Man, it took me a long time to find something important that was missing. What was that missing element in my life, one might ask? Often, I think it is an intangible thing, but I’ll give…
Last November I was faced with the decision of taking social security at sixty-two or wait until some age between now and seventy or even at all, but I’m not opposed to social programs that I’ve paid for all my life. This decision is something I was pretty sure about it, as recently as two…
Jen and I often talked about travelling the world or just travelling the USA while we were working. I suppose it is a dream of a lot of people to travel and experience locations not always unlike your own in landscape, but culturally different. And, of course, there are those places that are so extremely…
Lately, my conversation has been remembering things from my past. This doesn’t mean everything was about things I’ve done, no, some of it was remembering about a world less complicated. Kids were a dream with wondering what kind of people they would be. Times when politics actually made since instead of the modern-day shit or…
Awhile back, I was talking to my book reviewer/editor (Kate) about how writing about something is like a high-level view of the real story and is often just a catalyst to a memory. Even in my book, my love of music and the eclectic nature of my taste got overshadowed by the many other things…
I was sitting on my dad’s couch yesterday morning, talking and sharing coffee, and as we often do, the subject of the FAA came up. We were talking about common people we knew and about career choices we made, when it dawned on me that April Fool’s Day 2023, today, was supposed to be my…
Jen has this poem, “Spring has sprung, the grass has ris, I wonder where the birdies is?”. I always know it is spring and time to get busy with the yard, or as we jokingly refer to it as the grounds, when I hear her say it. We have more weeds than ever, which I…
