Lightening almost struck twice
posted 9 days ago and has 0 comments
As I mentioned in a post on Sistas, I came within inches of a second rattlesnake bite last week. The little bugger was curled up resting under the leaves of a cucumber plant in my garden when I went to pick ripe vegetables. I had just picked a cuc...
When love happens almost too late
posted 2 months ago, updated about 20 hours later and has 2 comments
I answered a post in one of the groups tonight, then thought more about what I'd written, and wanted to expand on it.
My mom and dad married not for love but stability. They'd both had horrible childhoods and wanted to do better for their family. ...
My mom and dad married not for love but stability. They'd both had horrible childhoods and wanted to do better for their family. ...
When love happens almost too late
posted 2 months ago and has 0 comments
I answered a post in one of the groups tonight, the thought more about what I'd written, and wanted to expandon it.
My mom and dad married not for love but stability. They'd both had horrible childhoods and wanted to do better for their family. Wh...
My mom and dad married not for love but stability. They'd both had horrible childhoods and wanted to do better for their family. Wh...
Modern day pioneers, Part 1 - Snakebite
posted 3 months ago, updated 7 minutes later and has 2 comments
When we told people we were moving to Montana, and were going to build our own home, we were subjected to not only puzzled looks, but lots of advice. The one I later wished we'd listened to was "Don't build it yourself". By the time I realized thi...
Green living by necessity
posted 4 months ago, updated 7 days later and has 2 comments
Today everyone seems consumed by the need to be “green”. To me that still brings up an image of Ray Walston in My Favorite Martian. I don't subscribe to Al Gore’s gloom and doom hysteria, but probably live a greener lifestyle than most.
When Dan ...
When Dan ...
Straining my brain in paradise
posted 4 months ago, updated 9 minutes later and has 0 comments
February was an incredible month! After a year of planning and saving, my husband and I returned to the Institut de Francais for four weeks of intensive French language study. As I mentioned in my previous blog, we studied there once before in 200...
Adventures in OZ
posted 10 months ago, updated about 18 hours later and has 1 comment
When we spent a month studying French at an immersion language school in 2003, (Institut de Francais in Villefranche sur Mer) I often felt like the Tin Man in the wizard of Oz. My brain felt as though it were rusted, needing his ever present oil c...
I love people and I love to travel
posted 10 months ago and has 0 comments
'I love people and I love to travel'
That's the phrase almost every young person uses when asked by an interviewer why they want to be a flight attendant. After 16+ years as a flight attendant, I still loved to travel, just not standby.
When my...
That's the phrase almost every young person uses when asked by an interviewer why they want to be a flight attendant. After 16+ years as a flight attendant, I still loved to travel, just not standby.
When my...
