Searching for Direction & Purpose in Life's Sea of Opportunities
Remember when Myspace was cool? Here are some blog posts I made there 5 years ago.
Growing up in Southern California, we wore flip flops for a good portion of the year. This fact lead to one of my favorite Ma stories, actually a compilation of memories that we still laugh about today. My sister (the mother of my fabulous nephews), Ma, and I would often walk around stores together.… Continue reading Flip Flops
I was a teenager in the 80s – as numerous pictures of me with cockatiel bangs can attest. That was during Reagan’s military buildup, “the bear” ad, and his “tear down this wall” speech. Somehow, however, I never felt that the communist threat was real. I was living in a first strike city (and have… Continue reading Communist Plot
As I was writing my blog post about my mandolin, I started laughing as I described the frustration of trying to get all the pieces back in place. It reminded of a similar experience I’d had many years ago with Ma during a visit home. Ma was enrolled in a recipe club, where bunches of… Continue reading Spatial Relations Fail
Last week I saw a blurb on Facebook, a kids-these-days piece, in which a kindergarten teacher was shaking his head about the answer one of his students gave on a test. This reminded me of my early school days. I went to year round school. Back in the day, California had money, and there were… Continue reading Pre-Skill
I have always been big on wanting to be surprised. I didn't want to know what was in the gifts under the tree until it was the official opening time. I was never one to peek. In high school, Ma and I started a tradition: We would both do our Christmas shopping at the mall at… Continue reading Don’t Peek
Years ago I was travelling heaven knows where, when I had my first celebrity sighting. Richard Simmons walked through my terminal. He was not in incognito mode: He was wearing Dolphin shorts, a matching tank top and sweatband as part of promoting his new-at-the-time "Deal a Meal" program. I have loved Richard Simmons since his television exercise show… Continue reading Celebrity Sighting
Recently Ms. M and I were on one of our many monthly adventures when she brought up how big a role music played in her life when she was growing up. Her whole family listened to and sang the songs of musical theatre. She beamed as she remembered an audition piece she had done in college of… Continue reading Soundtracks of Our Lives
A couple of weeks ago, DH2U and I went to Costco. I was pushing the cart around until I abandoned it to look at some bright shiny thing that caught my attention. DH2U took up the slack and headed on down the aisle pushing the cart. My thought process when I saw it made me… Continue reading Warped for Life
In my final years of high school, a good friend of mine and I would take a stress relief break right before our final exams. She had access to her brother's car, so she would pick me up, and we would go to our first stop: Wendy's. Wendy's Frostys were a required part of our ritual.… Continue reading Swings
Twice in my life I've been friends with women who share my birthday (the day, not the year) - and no, that was not a criteria for our friendship! The first was a delightful woman I met right after college. Like me, she'd moved to a strange city to be close to her fiance. With… Continue reading Shared Birthdays
Grown Up, Now What? 