I’VE MET SOME amazing women in my life. Most of them are older than me; some are my age. I guess we get wiser as we experience life’s ups and downs. So when a woman who is half my age turns out to be someone I admire and look up to, it’s kind of humbling.
It Occurs To Me: An adult relationship
I WANT MY MARRIAGE TO BE AN ADULT. Allow me to explain that statement. I have two adorable granddaughters. The oldest was born just 10 days before I met John. And my youngest granddaughter was born four days after John and I got married. So, in a visual way, they represent the maturity of our […]
It Occurs To Me: Men
I’VE PRETTY MUCH GOT MEN FIGURED OUT. I mean, how hard could it be anyway, right? I grew up with 11 brothers, had several guy friends in high school and then had two boys of my own. When I was young we lived in the country and had to take the bus to school. Our […]
It Occurs To Me: To all the mothers: It’s your day
I WAS BORN ON MOTHER’S DAY. And because Mother’s Day always falls on the second Sunday in May, I shared my birthday with my mom’s day exactly three times. The day I was born, when I turned 5 and then my 11th birthday. That was the year she died. I don’t really remember celebrating Mother’s […]
It Occurs To Me: Growing up a garden
I’M GOING TO PLANT MY GARDEN TODAY. To me that statement is pretty simple and self explanatory. But if I said that to my Dad he would have looked at me with the most confused look on his face. How do you plant a garden in a day, would be his question. I grew up […]
It Occurs To Me: Color me gone?
I’VE BEEN DESCRIBED AS MANY THINGS. My husband John likes to call me a hippie. I guess that is sort of true. I do want a commune, I like that the sexual revolution freed people to express themselves, I’m pretty liberal and I am all about eating organic, non-GMO, healthy food. I like my blue […]
It Occurs To Me: Commune building
I WANT TO START MY VERY OWN COMMUNE. Well, maybe commune isn’t the right word. I think I just want all my people close to me. This last weekend John and I had our wedding reception. This isn’t the first marriage for either of us, and at our age there are no parents paying for […]
It Occurs To Me: Hard to swallow
FOOD IS A WONDERFUL THING. You eat healthy food and you thrive — simple, right? I guess if it were that simple there wouldn’t be TV shows like “My 600-pound Life.” For those people, food became much more than a way to stay alive — it became a way to fix old emotions and hurts […]