The Silent Generation
I have been spending alot of time lately with people in their 80's. I didn't know what to call that generation so I looked it up online and found out they are called the Silent Generation. I thought...
View ArticleMy Birthday Week
I have two followers on my blog, my sister and my mother. My mother can no longer follow me, so I really have only one follower. But, I still love writing in my blog. I guess it is really for me that...
View ArticleCelebrating My Birthday August 2012
I pulled out all the stops and just had fun these last four days. Living one more year is something important to celebrate. I decided to make lunch at my house for friends on Friday and we had a...
View ArticleMagical Moments with Michael
My husband Michael and I have had many magic moments since the day we met. I don't remember the exact day, but I do remember where we met. It was approximately 34 years ago and I had just gotten the...
View ArticleThanksgiving without Mom
I have spent the evening going through boxes of photos, newpaper clippings and tapes from my mother. This photo that I found is one of my absolute favorites. It captures her dreamy look as well as...
View ArticleSpirits of the Ancestors
When my Grandma Edith (my mother's mother) died, the only item I wanted from her apartment was the first picture she painted at 75 years old. I still remember going over to her apartment and people...
View ArticleMom's Favorite Recipes
Mom was health conscious with her food choices way before it was popular. She always loved fresh, organic vegetables and fruit and joined a food co-op in St. Louis so she could get the freshest...
View ArticleLorelei: 2012 in Review
Looking back on 2012, it was definitely not an easy year. I was diagnosed with cancer and I lost my mother. In January 2012, I was feeling very healthy and my Mom was doing fine. There is nothing...
View ArticleResolutions and Gratitude for 2013
I am looking up other people's resolutions to try and get inspired. Some don't apply to me like "having another baby". No. Definitely not. Or "stop smoking". Thank God I never started. Other...
View ArticleHealing Myself
I am really amazed that as I put out to the universe the request to be healed, many good things have been pouring in. MeditationSilence is very helpful. As I meditate and rest, I feel a great sense...
View ArticleMaking Tequila the Natural Way
We drove into Baston del Rey on our private tour of Puerto Vallarta today and I was very impressed with what I saw. Here in this small local factory, they make tequila the natural way with no added...
View ArticlePrivate tour of Puerto Vallarta
We met a cab driver here named Gustavo who offered to give us a private tour of Puerto Vallarta. We met up with Gustavo on Wednesday March 27 at 10 am. First stop was to drive down hotel row and see...
View ArticleLearning More about the Mexican Culture
Five people now have told me that I speak really good Spanish. I smile and say "muchas gracias", but really my Spanish is not that good. I think they just really appreciate me trying to speak the...
View ArticleBlueberries for Breakfast
I have not baked for many years until I recently discovered gluten-free baking. I dusted off the muffin pan after retrieving it from the back of the cabinet excited to bake again. Yesterday when I...
View ArticleGrace, Grief and Gratitude
Grace: A spontaneous gift from God to humans-generous, free and totally unexpected and undeserved-that takes the form of divine favor, love and clemency. I agree with everything in the above definition...
View ArticleLoving St. Louis
I remember when they first built the arch. I was in fourth grade and we all stopped to watch on a little black and white television when they put in the last piece. It was quite an engineering...
View ArticleClass of 1973
Here is the high school I went to in Unversity City, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. I found out during the tour we took last weekend that it was built in 1912. They celebrated the 100 year...
View ArticleGrowing up with Becky on Princeton Place
My dear friend Becky, now Rebecca Heaton Turner attended the fortieth high school reunion with me. Last Saturday morning, July 13, 2013, we decided to explore the street where we grew up across the...
View ArticleFifty-eight
I was looking at the post I wrote last year when I turned fifty-seven and it was pretty darn good if I must say so myself. I was in the throes then of dealing with my mother's illness. Mom has since...
View ArticleMystery Tour of Sonoma County
We went to a wonderful fundraising event in August for Ceres Community Project, a local charity that teaches teenagers how to cook healthy food and then delivers that food for free to patients with...
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