Category: Random Life

  • The Drought is Over . . . I hope

    – discovered Red Tide is real—and a pain – drove the convertible with the top down . . . a lot – ate out more in three weeks than I have in 6 months

  • Savoring

    For the last few months thoughts of savoring and what it really means have occupied many of my thoughts.  I’ve discovered that I don’t savor enough.  Be it time with friends or doing something I enjoy, a great sunset or a tasty morsel—I tend to race through it. I think I’ve been plagued with the […]

  • Moving on after the Titanic

    Saturday evening I attended the Titanic exhibit and IMAX.  It was well done, very interesting, and more thought provoking than I anticipated.  The thing that got me was that in some ways it was the 9/11 of the day. That idea doesn’t completely transfer—the iceberg had no hostile or malicious intent.  However the idea of […]

  • Random Assortment of Thoughts

    Up and Down . . . that’s how I’ve been feeling lately.

  • Further Changes

    I thought I cleared my week to go to Florida; I had no idea I cleared my week to stay in the hospital.

  • Change of Plans

    Yesterday my Mom was admitted to the hospital. She’s in the middle of chemotherapy and the part of her white blood cells that makes her auto-immune system work have decided to take a little vacation.

  • Shouldn’t There Be Butterflies?

    I was set up on a date with a nice guy a while ago. We’ve been out a few times. On paper we’re great.

  • A Rose by Any Other Name

    More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Sheryl are female. (Wow. I hope so. Poor guy, whoever he is. I hope his middle name is more masculine than his first name.)

  • Waiting for the Red Bird

    Struggle seems omnipresent in my life lately.  No matter how much I wish it away, it doesn’t catch on and leave.  My health has been wearing me down—all the doings with my thyroid and now my uterus has jumped back on the bandwagon.  In short they keep growing things they shouldn’t.  My thyroid produces nodules […]

  • 6 Weird Things

    I really don’t like too much routine in my personal life.