Sales(wo)manship

Just about one month ago, wistful notions of once again driving my now departed Saab convertible rushed through my veins.  It was a beautiful spring day and other Saab nuts were out tooling around having fun–making me incredibly jealous and lonely for just one drive.
Fortunately, sanity returned in short order, but the real end of the story has to include how I [...]

Note to Self

Organizing the closets feels really good when it’s all done.  Clean, fresh, neat–what else could possibly be done to tweak such a satisfying experience?  Well, going forward, all closet and organizing projects are going to include a shorthand list of where the things that used to be on that shelf have been moved to.  (My high [...]

Then and Now

     Then
     Now
*Then* there was more energy to burn.  Still love the sheep sweater and am eternally grateful that perserverance is prominent in my gene pool.  Compliments always accompany the annual winter wearings of what has become known in my family as the “Princess Diana” or more simply “the Sheep Sweater”. 
L-o-o-o-o-ng time ago, the former McCall’s Magazine used to feature a famous woman [...]

Belated Happy Ground Hog’s Day to You!

My daughter was born on Ground Hog’s Day.  Several years ago she experienced what I call her “Great Adventure.”  Right after graduating from college she moved to California.  When her birthday came, I felt she needed a bit of home-grown nostalgia to cheer her on for her special day.  I also wanted to tell her that I [...]

Newby Begins Experiment

The past few years have brought a lot of new technology into my life.  Born just a tad too early to have grown up absorbing computers, digital cameras, flash drives, PSP’s, up/downloading etc. as just another part of the day, I have had to learn it all the hard way–on my own.
That sense of accomplishment is, however, [...]