While in Florida for 3 months I had many reasons to dress each day, either in appropriate field clothes or something semi-professional for my ESL classroom days. On those days I even I combed my hair and wore clean shoes. Living now in Alabama island mode, I want nothing but the extreme comfort of jammies…
Tango and I wander each day on foot. We have several routes on the beach and through the bird sanctuary. Sometimes we look for a new route that takes us into little nooks and crannies on this side of the island. The common thread on each route is the presence of worn wooden benches. The…
Rain! Freezing temperatures. Generally miserable weather. Large puddles of water everywhere. Few neighbors out. The weather degraded over several days, then the storm for several days, now slow recovery to normal weather. At least until the next storm. I tried to keep up walking routine with Tango. We saw a few others and the conversation was…
While my surprise visit from a friend brought great joy, I am back to grumpy. The trigger: news stories about the Republican push to repeal the Affordable Care Act as a first priority. They say that Obamacare is bad, the medical care is poor, and the cost is too high. However, it is only insurance…
The most amazing discovery so far about living in an RV full time? Life is the same in many ways as living in a house. I still misplace my reading glasses, even though I have at least 6 pairs laying around. I still hate doing dishes and they pile up sometimes. Housework and laundry never…
I woke up yesterday morning to large puddles outside the camper. Worse, I noticed that the windows inside had a great deal of condensation and – gasp – mildew. Small patches of white filaments alerted me. Mold? Turns out that the white stuff is mildew, a type of fungus that loves wet window sills. RVs…
Severe Storms, flash flooding! A soaking rainstorm coming for New Year’s Eve. Lightening, thunder! Batten the hatches. For days, brightly colored weather maps forecast bands of rain moving from the mainland over Dauphin Island, where I am camped out. More maps showed bands of rain moving from the south in the Gulf of Mexico over…
Þ America has “lost it’s soul.” I see that statement here and there in my online news feed. What does that mean exactly? To me “losing our soul” means that our basic, founding values have eroded completely. The Golden Rule. The pursuit of justice and freedom for all. Stewardship of our resources. We no longer…