Impracticality and Life Experiences
I’m not usually one to clip articles out of newspapers, although I do love how much information and thought provoking topics I get from reading the Sunday NY Ti...
Category: Life
Weekend Without Borders
It was o-dark-thirty when we crammed nine women, our chauffer, Barry, and multiple suitcases into a Suburban (totally illegal) and raced off to the airpo...
Lighthouse Love
I love lighthouses! I’m not sure why, but it may have to do with the proximity to the water, which is always a draw for me, or the romantic notion of standing ...
Book Review…The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
I know, I’m a rower, and you’re thinking “Really, you’re first book review for your blog is going to be about rowing!” No, actually, I’m going to review an ama...
Catfishing
Catfishing: The phenomenon of internet predators that fabricate online identities and entire social circles to trick people into emotional/romantic relat...
Rowing…Ballet on the Water
Mention that you’re on a women’s masters rowing team and the questions ensue. “Why rowing?” “Oh, did you row in college?” “Do you go out in cold/rainy we...
Thanksgiving…my favorite holiday!
The first two arrived last Saturday….the other two on Wednesday. Both of my children and their fiancés came to SoCal from NY/NJ for the Thanksgiving hol...
I Love Paris in the Springtime
I love Paris, and every quintessential Parisian cliché there is…warm baguettes, brie, Tour Eiffel, Notre Dame, The Louvre, Musee de’Orsay, croissants…the list g...
An Ode to Martha’s Bookstore
(Let me start by saying that I should have ‘pre-loaded’ each category on the blog with a couple of posts before launching, but I didn’t, so I apologize if you g...
Divorce, Choices and Daily Affirmations
I’d like to share a little of my history, which includes my divorce, however, this will be one of the few times I reference it because this is a positive...