Lately the subject of patience has come up.  I've been noticing for quite some time how extinct this virtue has become in our day.  People are hurrying too and fro not taking the time to really enjoy or even to help each other.  I was listening to the radio the other day when a caller called in commenting on how he sat outside a Walmart just to people watch.  His observation led him to the conclusion that people are just so busy doing and rushing around...

My bags are packed and I'm ready to go.  I just finished my last run in sunny warm Florida (actually cool today) until I return from Ohio where I'll be met with freezing temps from what I've heard.  I'll be flying into OHIO tonight to help care for my two baby grandsons while my daughter in love...has her third baby.  Hopefully...this time a girl but if not...there's always next time!! I packed the pink/white Nikes because I think this third time will be the charm ...

My heartfelt condolences and prayers go out to the many families who are hurting this morning as a result of what happened yesterday at Fort Hood.  Twelve young lives are gone in a blink of an instant all because of the hands of another.  Another who was one of them.  He ate with them, worked alongside them and slept with them and then he betrayed them by taking their lives.  Nothing to me is so devastating as betrayal.  In this case,...

Before we left for Monday night's dance lessons my husband remarked that the best thing about this night was that it was "three down with three to go."  Now, that was ugly.  He says things like that but I really do believe he likes it although at times I'm not entirely sure.  I'm thoroughly enjoying our Monday nights having gotten over the frustration and jitters of the first night.  We actually did quite well.  I made a comment to him during one of the les...

Ballroom dancing is progressing.  We had lesson #2 last night.  First we went over last week's lesson as an overview and realized we were practicing the rumba wrong.  When we finally got that straightened out, we were actually feeling good about our dancing for the first time since we started dance lessons.  Still have gads to learn though.  Instead of hearing from the lips of my frustrated husband "you owe me big time for this"  I heard this week,...

A few months ago I brought up the topic of ballroom dance lessons to my husband.  Would he be interested?  Would he enjoy it?  Would he commit to maybe a six week period and see it through?  He seemed agreeable.  When we were much younger, and before kids, we used to go out to the bars (yes bars) and go dancing.  Of course it wasn't anything fancy like ballroom but we would do the traditional waltz and shakes on the dance floor with no thought of f...

I saw an interview with Patrick Swayze before he died.  He said "the only thing you can take with you when you die is love."  Very perceptive.  Sometimes it takes a close call with death to understand truly what is important in life.  My husband came home the other day and said the IRS is getting brutal, more than usual, in accepting deductions.  I guess one lady donated about $10K worth of clothing and supplies to victims of a 2006 hurricane and the IRS rejected h...

Totally.  Frustrating.  I screwed up big time.  I could kick myself.  I was NOT a happy camper.  I ran a road race today.  It was the first one I've run since January.  Same course.  So my goal was to beat my last time.  The weather here today was humid and much hotter than January so it was a good goal.  I started off fine.   I was pretty close to goal time for the first mile.  At about a mile and a half, I wasn't ...

I've been told I have a heavy Northeastern accent almost everytime I open my mouth down here.  You know, like the Kennedy's?   I don't think so.  In fact, I know some who have it way worse than I do up North, but down here with not as many examples to draw from, I'm it.  I think it's most usually noticeable when I say the word "car."  I don't pronounce my r's in certain instances.  It's too much work to do so so I just naturally say "cah" instead......

My husband, the ultimate hardworker, took an unusual few days off around the 4th of July holiday.  Usually the only time we take a vacation it seems is to go see one of the kids.  The last three years or so that included scheduling their weddings into our vacation time.  One got married in Maine, one in Wisconsin and another in Kentucky.  And then with the arrival of grandkids that will have to be scheduled in as well.  We've had two with another on the...

"Save your fork."  Our Pastor friend said those are the sweetest three little words in the English language especially for those who love to eat.  Not only does he know when he hears these three little words that he can keep on eating, there's sure to be something sweet coming his way.  This may be the best part of the meal, he said, especially for those with a sweet tooth.  So he gladly hangs onto that fork.  Now along those lines dealing wit...

You've heard the saying, "there but the grace of God go I."  Well I'm saying that today on my son's behalf.  He was on the same train that crashed in DC yesterday except that he was on it over the weekend.  He was the best man at a wedding there on Saturday.  He's feeling the near miss and is glad he didn't take the train yesterday or that this crash happened just a day or so earlier.  I thank God for the protection of my son and pray for the families who w...

Well it's happened.  If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I'd still believe it.  So I guess seeing isn't always believing, but I already knew that, LOL.    You can actually feel it.  What am I talking about?    The temperature.  I saw the temperature reach 101 today as I stared at the thermometer!  Yesterday we had been told we would reach 100.  But as far as we could see, checking it hourly we only got up to 99 and never ...

My husband and I were fortunate to be walking by a new, anticipated to be opened soon, BBQ restaurant near our home the other night.   It just so happened to be opened for business.  It was their opening night.   We couldn't believe our fortune.  Never happened to us before.  There was nothing in the newspaper announcing this opening like they usually do with the other openings.  So we sauntered right in questioning whether they we...

What comes to your mind?   "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...it takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."    Albert Einstein (1879-1955)