One of my readers told me after my last post that although I do favor my dad, she absolutely sees a lot of my mother in me, so in all fairness, let us chat a bit about that shall we? My mother has a friend named Helen and my first…
Sand wich Generation
Building on what was said to me the other day, yes it is easy to tell who my Dad is when we are together. He has passed on some pretty strong genetic features and I am a mini-me. What I didn’t get from him are his long legs and that…
We laid a dear friend to rest today. His name was AC, yep A (only) C (only) many people called him Tac. He was just a good ole boy who worked hard to take care of his family, he was a good friend to my parents, he had a huge…
During this quarantine, I made the decision to go stay with my parents. It was until now a very private decision and one that has been for the most part a positive experience. It is very surreal staying in the bedroom in which you grew up. Where you went from…
I find this new phenomenon called adulting by the millennials rather intriguing. I pulled this off of Urban Dictionary:Adulting (v): to carry out one or more of the duties and responsibilities expected of fully developed individuals (paying off that credit card debt, settling beef without blasting social media, etc). This…
Every day we have a choice on how the day is going to be, yes? I know there are things that will influence your attitude. How well you slept, the weather, co-workers, children that don’t want to go to school, a crabby spouse, the dog went to the bathroom in…
I spoke last week of how I love to read and that I had read the book Eve’s Daughters several times. When I fall in love with a story it is hard for me to put a book down. I can remember the first time reading this story being intrigued…
My son the Viking
When I first started thinking about writing this blog it was to reach out to people in part of this unique situation of being part of the Sandwhich Generation. As I mentioned before Blogs develop a personality as they grow and we will see where this one ends up, but…
I don’t I know about you but I have a plan for if I win the lottery. Isn’t it something that everyone thinks about from time to time? They put it on the news when it gets really big, you can’t miss it, they keep talking about its in the…