Just saying hello. I'm here to make some new friends,I'm very happily single. After twenty years of marrage hell, I went on about three dates and decided I was not ready for a new relationship that went past friendship, and after ten years of being single...

Recently my son Steven, his wife Eileen and her brother Lee went on a hiking trip to the Paria Canyon near Lee's Ferry in Arizona. They had such a great trip. It was a 38 mile hike into the canyon with red and orange and brown sandstone cliffs all marbled...

Hi Friends           So Happy to be here ! Had a bad scare over the weekend..was not felling all that great for about 4 days ..went to bed early on Friday night,woke up because I was so cold ..Put more...

This is my first blog. It chronicles the first day of my retirement. The information is copied and pasted from a book that I wrote on baby boomer retirement. If the blogging police deem this a crime, I am guilty as charged. The next day I awoke at the...

I sit here writing this and wondering how we got here so fast. It seems just like yesterday I had a 8lb 6oz healthy, happy baby boy. I had him late in life I was 36 and had a few health issues but all went well with my pregnancy and delivery. The joy...

Today I am basking in the nice, cold air!  But that hasn't been the case for the past few weeks.  What's a poor boomer girl to do when she has a hot flash and NO air conditioning?  About two weeks ago, the air conditioner went on...

 Tis the season once again to be in the giving mood. Thats exactly what I did a few years back but unknowingly I realy gave! One morning I decided to clean out our closets and dressers of clothing that we no longer wore, Most were new some...

I get up at 5am, shower, dress and finishing packing the car for the two hour college road trip. We get to the place my daughter says is where orientation is going to be held. Nobody's there. It was the AnimalSciencesBuilding. Then I see a lady...

  Mother's Day Weekend – May 9,10,11 – Matt, Lesli, Solomon, his friend Daniel, Daniel and myself went to Oak Creek

Well, the trip down to Phoenix went smoothly, no snow, no ice and plenty of sunshine. Right after the Christmas program I was all packed and ready to go. I said my good-byes and headed to a much warmer climate.   I arrived at my son Steven’s for...

   The evening of September 14th, the night of my first speaking engagement, turned out to be rainy and rather miserable.  But, that didn’t deter about 40 hearty New Hampshire folks who turned out to hear me talk about the Why...

Gaining “Soul” Custody By Deedra Hunter, M.S., LMHC     You actually think everything is perfect, and then life happens.  Life happened to me August 14, 1994. A process server knocked on the door with papers...

My old friend, Frank, used to be married to Donna. Donna had a very close friend, Jim, who was gay, not that there's anything wrong with that. I say was because Jim is no longer with us and that's just a darn shame because he was so good natured and an...

It's hard to tear me away from the television on Sundays … football, you know … but this past weekend, I went to a unique event called BarCamp Orlando. It was billed as a get-together for techies, a chance for people to get together to share ideas,...

I can honestly say that I am now free – free at last. And, the good news is, I didn’t have to spend thousands of dollars in therapy to get that way – this year, the shackles that bound me just fell away. I feel so liberated!  I know...

It's official, HD-DVD is dead.  I'm so relieved I went with Blu-Ray six months ago.  It was not a decision I took lightly, since my mother still has about a hundred beta tapes at home.  HD-DVD fans will likely get a good deal on existing...

Being an entrepreneur...or a “Jill of all trades and a mistress of none,” which is how I’ve always described myself...I’ve found myself involved in some pretty bizarre employment ‘opportunities.’My first job was on top...

Terschelling, Netherlands, June 1964 She was skipping the rope that, on the other end, was tight up on the stoop bench, while she stood across the street and my friend was jumping. She had been jumping for such a long time, she started to pant....

My brother was worried about saving his 1000-finger banana plant; I was worried about saving my life. I’m not a major worrier, but when there’s a tropical storm/hurricane in the front yard, I get a little apprehensive. I mean, when the water...

My father has always been one very good auto mechanic. He used to help fix seemingly impossible problems on stock cars that would run the modified NASCAR circuit. Of course, he's been retired for years now. Back in the seventies, he owned a front-end...

In December 1973, a day after Christmas, my mother and I got a physical check-up,  in order to get a real Seamans book. It was all done in a hurry, in Amsterdam, and from that moment on we were supposed to be stewardesses. It says so in that book, I...

A few days before Thanksgiving, my husband Bob went to an out-of-town grocery store to buy a fresh turkey.  While he was gone, I rearranged things in the refrigerator to make room for the turkey he’d soon be bringing home.  As the...

http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f191/ina111/th_2169779297_edb0656f2f.jpg   After missing the 3.00  pm ferry from Harlingen to Terschelling by only a few minutes, I ensconced myself in a chair in the restaurant overlooking the quay. It...

It wasn’t on the fire ground or an accident, or even on the dangerous interstate highway—there were no warning signs—just a physical that the fire station requires.  The chief is always asking if everyone went for their...

This past weekend my wife and I traveled to the Trump International Sonesta Beach Resort to witness the wedding of one of my closest friend’s daughter. Robyn and Chip were to be married in what was the most beautiful wedding we’d ever had the...

Hello, I'm Penny My husband and I have a wounderful ministry reaching out to others, But my heart goes out to the lonesome and forgotton ones and look to help the lonely. There is so much to say about our ministry, But right now I would like...

I first posted this essay for CafeMom.com, but liked it so much I wanted to share! This Christmas stood out for a lot of non-traditional reasons.  I was behind on everything due to multiple family disasters a hundred miles away that started...

The other night my wife and I along with some friends went on a little cruise on the Indian River Lagoon. It was the annual WFIT Indian River Queen Paddleboat Cruise where two hundred sixty Jazz aficionados/WFIT supporters gather on the ninety-nine foot...

I went to an ashram once many years ago.  I had to be there for a whole month in order to get a yoga teaching certificate.  At the end of our program, we would be tested, both with a written exam and then presenting an entire one-hour yoga class...

  This story is about the trip we took to see my mom at Christmas, 1982. She lived in Evans, Colorado and we lived in Page, Arizona. We had decided to take our four sons in our Dodge van not knowing what the weather had in store.   We...

Was there ever a more chaotic decade than the 60's? I mean, it's like the '70's never had a chance!!! Imagine being squeezed in between the '60's and the '80's! It's no wonder the '70's wandered around like a lost little puppy looking for a place to call...

Roadie Report 31 - "The Rolling Thunder Revue" Roger McGuinn, Joanie Mitchell, Joan Beaz A few days after we hugged Barry McGuire goodbye, we loaded our van and hit the road. October has always been our favorite time of year to tour. The minute the...

I was so "happy" when I heard about "The Red Hat Society!" I went out and I bought myself the very "last" red hat with a big purple band of lace around it and a big purple rose on it and a pair of red slip on sandals and clutch purse then came home and...

I bought a new motorcycle this week and I just had to take it out for a breakin ride, and what a georgous day to do it.  I headed south from Clermont to Lake Louisa Road, which is one of my favorite roads.  The lake was beautiful as usual and...

You know how a smell can trigger a memory? For me … Earl Grey tea is one of the most powerful smells around. Not because of the delicate herbs and spices -- but because Earl Grey smells like summer afternoons with my grandmother. Grandma Kathy was...

It hurt. It always did. I just got used to it. After all, isn't that easier than doing something about it? Anyway, who has time in their lives for distractions like medical ailments. But it wouldn't go away. In fact, it kept getting worse. I couldn't bend...

After Rudy Guiliani cheated on his wife and they divorced, she wrote a best-selling book titled My Boyfriend’s Back.  I don’t mean to be a copycat, but I’m kind of, sort of, writing the same book. Mine is titled My Boyfriend’s...

As some of your already know, I am a motorcycle enthusiast. To be on the open road with the wind in my face gives me a feeling of really being alive and in touch with nature. The other day a small group of us over 50 year old riders decided to take...