Tag Archives: Ohio

10.23.15
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Living in the moment

I’m confident that the more I’m able to process the quietness of my soul, the easier it will be for me to shut it down and appreciate the individual moments.  Each time I realize I have too many thoughts deflecting peace of mind, the quicker I seem to be able to shut it down!  It happened this afternoon driving Detroit to Toledo.  I found myself peaking at natures beauty of the fall tree colors but was interrupted thinking about the weekend…planning..thinking about the return trip on Sunday and then I was able to stop!



No way could my camera pick up the beauty but my soul soaked it in.

We had dinner at a sweet little local Italian restaurant tonight with Corey, Tracy and Erin…missing our girl, Mary Beth!  It is going to be a wonderful weekend full of conversation and love!  I have chosen beautiful friends.

Until next time…..

09.30.08
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Visiting Kate in Ohio…..

It’s raining tonight in this part of Ohio.  Just a nice soothing rain.  He and I got up late – okay – nearly afternoon – Katy came home from work and spent about an hour with us before she had to head to Kent…We turned on Carmen the Garmin and headed for Cleveland – saw the Indians, Cavaliers and Brown’s stadiums…ate at Hard Rock and then we went on a hunt for a wii.  We hit most of the Game Stops in and around Cleveland and Akron – will hit a couple tomorrow in Cuyahoga Falls.  Apparently several places had wiis this weekend but sold out…I guess most of those were Best Buys grrrrrrr

I finally won a fantasy football game = finally!!!  We were talking about going to Pittsburg tomorrow to check out the Steeler’s stadium and just hang out but Kate wants us to come to the Montisorri preschool where she teaches at 1600…so will probably just shop tomorrow – I know there has to be a craft shop yelling my name.

That’s it for tonight…

Until next time….

09.27.08
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Paul Newman died, trip to Kate

Paul Newman died…. wow

Jenny’s first boyfriend died – he was only 27…He came from some major disfunction…dad was in prison several times – lots of drugs involved…makes me wonder what actually took him.  His obit picture certainly didn’t look like the cute little pudgy junior high kid that I remember.  he actually had a “spice” tat on the front of his neck.  Another jolt for life perspective.

Kim and Sarah came out this morning – Sarah is going to take care of the critters while we are gone…she had only met one of them…she’s a critter person too and thought the week would be wonderful – everyone made up to her really fast except Billy and he’s a little stand-off-ish about who he gives his love to 🙂  Sarah also used to take care of mom several years ago…shes in the process of taking her LPN boards and it will be nice to have her next door in case one of them needs the services of a nurse while we are gone.

I thought the debate last night was interesting.  I have no doubt that I will vote Obama…but I feel okay if McCain wins…okay probably isn’t the word but it is the only one I can come up with….just not totally freaked out like when the current moron was elected the first time and second time.  I have a lot of confidence in Obama – Biden is okay too in my book.  McCain has some positive things going for him but he doesn’t give me the the confidence that Obama gives me.  Palin…there are things that I like – there are things that I don’t like and her experience and the over-the-top “I’m in charge, that’s why” mentality kind of scares me.  We’ll see how it all comes out in the wash in November, I guess.

We are going to Cuyahoga Falls, OH – leaving Sunday – this is the Akron area – south of Cleveland.  We are going to have a couple of days to hangout while the kids are in school/work – any suggestions?  Last time we drove up to Niagara Falls…that was fun. Katy tells me we should sight see in Cleveland…any insight into this???  I figured cleveland was about as exciting as Des Moines except with a lake?  Am I wrong?

I have to take the laptop…we’ll be driving tomorrow during the games but thank goodness for sirius radio….

Until next time…