Ninasusan

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

A friend of mine died on Sunday.  I grieved for the family!  Just like everyone else, I went about my life…doing what I would normally do on Sunday afternoon.  Talking, laughing and living my life while memories of Dorena continued to slip into my consciousness.  I decided that I would feel guilty writing a blog… Read more

I’ve noticed there are antique people and people who appreciate a more modern living space.  Every now and then I see a modern, minimalist house and think  to myself maybe I should try it. *laughs out loud. There is something about antiques and the life they have lived before they were mine.  For me, they… Read more

   Hanging on to those little rips of humor makes all of the political BS a little easier to swallow…..and I like to hear it from people I like and respect.  It helps in putting this totally hateful political season into perspective.  I feel like all of us normal people are rolling our eyes and… Read more