March 2016

My dad has been gone just over 15 years and I still get that ache in my throat occasionally when something brings my thoughts into focus of him.    This mandolin was very special to him and hung in various places in our home while I was  growing up.  I’m sure it belonged to one Read more

What a difference a day makes.  Spring is here and I was thinking it was getting to be about time to move the plants outside.  I just don’t think they have been happy since I moved them indoors in October……but…..it’s probably going to freeze overnight the next couple of days.  Yesterday was a beautiful spring Read more

I think conflict is very healthy.  I learned that when someone disagrees with me I have 3 options….a brawl, a respectful discussion or ignore and move on.  I choose one of these options depending on how important the topic of disagreement seems to be.  Politics…I usually just move on.  Religion…I can have a healthy, respectful Read more

My amazing niece took us out for dinner last night.       Tassos Greek Restaurant in KC!  This was my first Greek experience and now do I not only want to return to the restaurant but I want to experience Greece! Live music with two very fun musicians playing a guitar, flute, sax enhanced with Read more

Few things make Jenny happier than when she and I show up together wearing similar clothes….but I dont just do it with Jenny.  The family went to see Thomas the Train last year and Justin and I looked like we should be piloting gondolas    We met family from the other side of Missouri in Read more

I’ve found the lighter I am emotionally, the clearer I can see.  I can remember back in the day he would be excited about nature’s beauty…ya…he can still spot a hawk sitting on a utility pole 30 feet high from 5 miles away and I’m not impressed.  a bald eagle in a tree…yes.  A pelican Read more

      Our 3rd March in Pleasant Hill, MO and I still haven’t gotten used to the idea of spring in March…uncovering my sprouts of Day Lillies on my birthday was lovely.  We got a load of wood in December and the end of the stack was covering some of my sprouts…but they were growing Read more

After waking up 60 birthdays in a row….I should have known…nothing really changes.  I’ve thought it many times and said it many times that it’s just a number….but this one is really making me feel old….last night before I slipped off to sleep, I said to myself well goodbye 50s. Quite a difference than my Read more

Many of the threads weaved through my personality I don’t particularly like.  When I can name them…like the judgemental knot…I work with the seam ripper and try to slowly pull and rip the thread out.  Revenge (or holding a grudge) is another one of those totally unattractive soul rippers that blocks the way for inner Read more

If you have ever been a cigarette smoker and broken the habit, it is quite  likely you are a cigarette snob.  You notice how much better you feel, you are no longer obsessed about running out of cigarettes at an inconvenient moment, you notice how bad smokers actually smell.  That lingering odor that finally cycles Read more