Greetings from my new-to-me RV community for singles. The website for Loners on Wheels (LoW) points out that this is not a dating community but a group of 50+ year old nomadic singles who want to socialize with others. Potlucks, outings, hiking, pizza night with wanderers just like me! However, if LoW’s target audience were younger…
I started this near the end of my stay at Dauphin Island and just finished! Don’t want to forget my lovely veteran washing machines. Tango and I took one of our long beach walks that loops around past Fort Gaines on the return leg. Back in the campground, we passed the washer and dryers,…
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…
Sand! Sand in the sheets, on the floor, in my ear, and clinging to my shoes. Every day I sweep the camper and wipe the shoes. I cover the bed with Tango’s quilts, hoping to contain the sand on the bed surface. I am supposed to have outdoor flip-flops and indoor flip-flops, but I forget…
I want to write today about the joy of being so close to Kerry and Meghan. But first, for fun,I put the word “family” in my headline generator plug-in. I just love seeing the totally nonsensical options that occur after the generator plugs a term into a canned headline. Funny examples: 10 Startups That’ll Change…
I have my online news readers set to alert me when juicy old lady news hits the net. My computer was smokin around the edges and nearly jumping off the table a few days ago, and I dropped everything to see WHAT?!? What’s up in old lady land? Did Madeleine Albright get a new brooch?…
Wandering around the garden department, thinking about the garden I won’t have this year because I do not have a yard! Then, my thoughts turn to all the gardens I have grown. Zucchini, potatoes, peppers. In recent years, flowers too. Dahlias, zinnia, hollyhocks. I pause at the display of red geraniums. Memories flood in, including…
My muse emerges when I am in a peaceful and beautiful setting outdoors. Now, outdoor trips are rare thanks to deep winter in the north, when I am mostly indoors for months at a time. I moved a comfy chair next to the doors leading to the deck for some visual inspiration. The house across the…
I contrast then and now. Saturday morning chaos of chores, now Saturday morning leisure. At one time, dashing to standing room only grocery store, then soccer game, then Taco bell for nourishment; today sleeping late, wandering around the back yard with my dog, then oatmeal with bananas and protein powder. My son’s pile of laundry…
Infant, child, teenager, young adult, middle-aged, old. That’s the grand procession through the years. I do not know when the old part will end; however, thanks to long-lived parents and modern medical science, I know what health risks I possess, and I can imagine – even plan for – my later needs. My transition to old has…