It only took thirteen years. But this week I am keeping a couple of promises. One is to my husband. During my short time living in Orlando (when he was my boyfriend-soon-to-be-fiancé), Steve came to visit me. We had a day free and tried to decide whether to spend it at the Gulf coast or the ocean. […]

The first half of our vacation was all about reconnecting with old friends in a place familiar to us, a place where we (along with Tony Bennett) left our hearts – or at least part of them. This second half is about visiting family and experiencing new places. We spent time with Steve’s son in Seattle and […]

The day we flew to the West Coast was the day the horrendous heat wave descended on the rest of the country. Weather maps showed every part of the United States in shades of red except for one narrow strip of yellow. That strip started in San Francisco and ended in Seattle. We were headed […]

In all the time I’ve been a blogger, I’ve somehow been able to consistently keep up, never letting a whole week go between blogs. Cross-country moves, surgeries and hospitalizations (my own and others’), long trips and short ones, houseguests, the birth of our grandchildren – nothing has prevented me from blogging. Until now. Yesterday, while […]