Hard to believe I have gone from the quiet woods in FL to living near the border in NM with a fun bunch of elders. Likewise, difficult to imagine being too busy to blog! This fluctuation seems to be my future – moving between quiet, reflective settings and a community of like-minded social folks who…
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron…
I was walking Tango this morning and a neighbor–a master of idleness – shouted to me from his lounge chair, “What are you thinking right now?” Darn, he caught me thinking about the things on my “to-do” list (license plates, pick up RX and mail). This was a disappointing answer since the guy is my…
Been keeping busy with the details of establishing residency and getting ready for my summer volunteer work at Yellowstone. I have my NM driver’s license, but a glitch with the van title is drawing out the license plate/registration process. I have the title, but my “title number is not in the national database”, which means…
My son and daughter-in-law are expecting their first child in October, and I will be a grandma. Today they announced the news to everyone on Facebook, with this clever photo: Kerry and Meghan also posted a recent sonogram: We do not know yet if the little squirt is a boy or girl. Regardless, we…
People in the Midwest work hard and display generous doses of common sense, most of the time or at least when I grew up there. My grandpa identified strongly with those traits. He spent his career in one place, lived in the same house from the time he married until he died. Grandpa lived well–he…
Highway to hell, stairway to heaven, leaving on a jet plane, where the streets have no name, everybody’s looking for something. The passport to retirement reveals a journey forward, to new dreams, and a journey backward, to reclaim those pushed aside. Passport
I am not exactly homeless. I just moved around during my working years and made a home for a while wherever I landed. Now, I travel fulltime in my RV. I started in the Midwest and then spent most of my adult years in the West: Colorado, Arizona, California, Wyoming, Idaho. When asked, Where…
After our stay at Percha Dam State Park, my friends Betty and Sharon headed north, back to Colorado. I headed west, towards the mountainous Gila National Forest and Silver City on Hwy 152. The road wound back and forth, over the Black Mountains. However, the eastern slope of the National Forest was parched and…
e·lix·ir əˈliksər/ noun noun: elixir; plural noun: elixirs a magical or medicinal potion. “an elixir guaranteed to induce love” a preparation that was supposedly able to change metals into gold, sought by alchemists. a preparation supposedly able to prolong life indefinitely. noun: elixir of life; plural noun: elixirs of life a medicinal solution of a…