Feb 4, 2012
Randy’s post about the dating game in later life, threw me back in time to the period after Jay’s death when I was looking for male company. It was late fall 1993. Jay had died in June after three...
Jan 25, 2012
When Ed and I got our Florida driver’s licenses, there was an option to register with a political party. I registered as a Democrat. Ed registered as a Republican because, classically, he considered...
Jan 23, 2012
Ed asked me to clear out a file drawer so that he would have a repository for files that will grow out of his new duties as a guardian. I kept putting this off and he didn’t understand why until I s...
Jan 18, 2012
After several days of relapse, I improved suddenly and had almost normal energy today. Three days ago, I biked and stopped off to see my sister, Tula. She had just fallen and her husband and I were tr...
Jan 13, 2012
I am so frustrated with things getting out of hand in the house, that I forced myself to put “one” thing away today. It was a box of coffee packets from BJ’s. This brand’s box is larger than t...
Jan 13, 2012
Well, I’m still working through stuff posted from last September when I had to go to the hospital for tests because I wasn’t walking right and everyone thought I was having a stroke (except me, th...
Jan 9, 2012
Edward is waiting to get a date to take the state exam to be a guardian officially. Meanwhile, he oversaw a case referred to him by a lawyer who knew him through his ombudsman work, to become a truste...
Jan 4, 2012
The Iowa caucus just concluded (that I watched with horrified fascination) again reinforced the notion that Iowans haven’t got a clue.I entered the following on the Morning Joe web site that invites...
Jan 1, 2012
Just read Randy’s post about 2011 being a good year for him physically and family wise, although he did say he’s giving up on dating after a couple of going nowhere experiences. I’m confused. Bo...
Dec 30, 2011
Ed now and then gets dreamy eyed about renovations and his latest almost project is to replace the windows in the master bedroom. They are old, don’t work well, leak air, etc. He called a company an...
Dec 27, 2011
During his search for those who knew his mother, Dalton got in touch with some of her authors. One of them, with whom I had worked and knew quite well, is dying of lung cancer. I asked Dalton for his ...
Dec 26, 2011
Earlier this week, set up the coffee, pressed the button. Later when I heard the beep, went to get the pot. It was on the counter next to the coffee maker. The mess wasn’t as bad as it could have be...
Dec 23, 2011
Dalton flew down to visit early this week. He looks exactly like his mother, an amazing resemblance. He brought photos of his family, two striking boy-girl twins, almost four, and his lovely wife, who...
Dec 10, 2011
My friend, Steve, who does wonderful construction work for us, stopped his truck to talk with me while I walked yesterday. Somehow it came up how disappointed he was in the way our society was develop...
Dec 8, 2011
I heard on the news that Adele 21 was the top-rated album of the year. "She’s got something for everyone," the news person burbled. Her kids loved it, she loved it. "She doesn’t come out of a form...