Life in the fast lane--where's the on ramp?

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Friday, August 1, 2014

Hair it is - Write Your Own Story...

Small crowd (only 3) at the Write Your Own Story group on Thursday. And my printer will not talk to my computer. Which meant that after I created the prompt page for this weeks's meeting, I couldn't print it out. I did two things: emailed a copy to Sara at the Center and asked if she could print it... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Helen Mirren

I just read a feature in AARP Magazine about Helen Mirren, and I have to say I like her even better now. I've always been a fan - and I decided she's a real gal when I saw the film "Calendar Girls." It's about a fundraising effort for a small community where all the 60-something ladies do a nude... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd Have Baked a Cake...

I shoulda waited till tomorrow's blog to tell you this one, but I'm afraid the marbles in my head will roll around and I'll forget... It seems Iona - head of the kitchen volunteers - baked a chocolate cake at home and brought it in to celebrate someone's birthday. Thick creamy white icing, topped... Sign in to see full entry.

Big Game

It was a funny day at The Center yesterday, some of it funny ha-ha, and some of it just weird. I took my own coffee along - needed 'real' and not the decaf they brew, and also took along a couple choc chip cookies I'd baked with a gluten-free mix. I barely hung up my purse and checked out the van's... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Tea(bag) Time...

Don't know what's up with our neighborhood squirrels, must be a bad year for the usual hunting and gathering. Strawberry season is over, helped along by a yard boy who doesn't know a strawberry from crabgrass and weedwhackered it all when the old fence was still standing. Maybe this is why the... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, July 28, 2014

Flirty Thirty...

This Friday my granddaughter Angela celebrates her 30th birthday. This puts 4 of my grandkids over the 30 mark. I remember when she was born, her dad was 22, her mother was 19, just babies themselves, really, and she was their second blessed event. Richie was just walking then, the two cutest... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, July 27, 2014

"I believe in yesterday." with gratitude to The Beatles...

I was thinking about time yesterday - how it drags when we're waiting for someone to keep a date, like when there's a prom coming up and you've got a date who could be your significant other, how it takes forever to get here and then it's over in a heartbeat. Or you've had an exam, the doc has taken... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Good one! (excuse that is)

Noon yesterday: Lowe's office girl left a message while I was having coffee on the porch with Joe and Guy. It seems Mr. E and his crew dug into an underground line at the other jobsite, and this caused major problems, so "They won't be there this afternoon after all." Never mind that he'd promised... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, July 25, 2014

Fencing

Words like fencing have more than one meaning. To fence means you spar with someone either with words or finely honed blades. Some think words are more powerful than swords, that they can cut deeply - but the bandaids don't show. Oh, geez, I hate it when I get off on one of those wordish tangents.... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Promises to keep

I believe that line is from Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening." I still remember hearing Mrs. Newton read it in her very proper Scots brogue, and how it seemed like my own experience. And then my daughter learned it in high school and loved Frost's work so much she named her white... Sign in to see full entry.

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