It Feels Like the First Day of School

It Feels Like the First Day of School

At the beginning of this year I made some changes in my life, major changes. Closed one business completely, started winding down the other one, applied for early Social Security (thank you for all those corporate years), downsized and moved. My calculations told me...
Adding a Little Zip

Adding a Little Zip

What’s the perfect outing for someone who has a mild anxiety about heights? Zip lining of course. My friend Shirley decided she was going to celebrate her 70-somethingth birthday with something new and exciting. She sent out the zip lining adventure invitation...
Moving – It’s Not for Sissies

Moving – It’s Not for Sissies

I decided it was time to make a few changes. So, not being one to do things by halves, I dropped a bomb into my life and changed almost everything. All at once. It has been a mad couple of months. First I tried to sell one of my businesses. When that didn’t work...
Jeopardy and the Rounding Error

Jeopardy and the Rounding Error

The TV game show Jeopardy is advertising the latest on-line test to become a contestant. It’s coming up on March 28. My husband has been urging me to register and I’ve been “forgetting”. Last night I figured out why. It’s not that I was...
Schedule It and It Will Happen

Schedule It and It Will Happen

Not quite “Build it and they will come” but the best I can do on this Saturday morning. If you read back in my posts you’ll encounter a number of articles about play and at least one where I express my ambition to speak and teach on the subject. That...
Who You Gonna Call?

Who You Gonna Call?

Last year we bought a washer-dryer unit. One of those skinny, dryer-stacked-on-top, units to replace one we’d been using since Atlantis was a super power. Funds were short but laundry will not be ignored. A Craigslist search and several phone calls brought us...