Along Came a Spider
My husband had a conference in Hawaii, so I came along for the fun! We were there with one of his eleven ‘bosses’, and it was my job to entertain…
More Than What You Paid For
Sometimes I love to just stop and people watch during the Holiday season. One year I was shopping at a local craft store and found myself meandering through the store…
Refuge In The Cold
Growing up somewhat in the country, our parents involved us in a group called 4-H. This is an organization whose mission was ‘to encourage youth to reach their fullest potential’,…
‘Bushwhacked’
Hurricanes. Coming from the west coast with fires and earthquakes, one really doesn’t have time to prepare. You can have a plan in place, but you have little to no…
Heads Flew
It’s funny, when we moved to a lake on the East Coast, in so many ways, we had no idea WHAT we were getting ourselves into. Escrow closed, and we…
The ‘Green Monster’
Living in North Carolina, we love living by the water. The one thing we quickly learned is that the shoreline doesn’t take care of itself. After a storm, there is…
Lost At Sea?
When we lived in California, one of our favorite things to do was to rent a houseboat and spend a week on the lake. Several times we went to a…
A “Little Bike Accident”
We spent an Easter in Tennessee with my daughter, son-in-law, and two grandsons when the boys were quite young. The spring weather was amazing, and we spent most of our…
Drive Yourself
When I was fourteen years-old we lived outside of the capital of Montana, where my dad was the minister at the church we attended. He usually took his own car…
How do you get from here to there… what do you do?
Moving from the West Coast to the East Coast was filled with challenges. The new company that had hired my husband to move us to the Carolinas was moving us.…