I meant to send this blog post out on the last day of 2015. However, I had the stomach flu! This seems to happen when I am in Mexico or always around the holidays. (And, yes, I had my flu shot!) So here it is, already the New Year 2016 [...]
This is my 599th blog post. And this is my post-birthday blog. I was born on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1961. My mother was very big on telling each of my sisters and me our birth story every time our birthdays rolled around. I think each time she told [...]
I experienced two highlights yesterday. One was a visit to Harpa, Reykjavik's modernly monumental performing arts center. The second one was the group farewell dinner at the award winning Hotel Holt Restaurant. My camera doesn't do so well in dimly lit interior conditions, so others took photos of the meal. [...]
My eldest sister Nora and her eldest grandson, Jesse, visited last week. It was Jesse's first trip to Washington state. Among the many Seattle activities were the visit to the Space Needle, seeing Pike Place Market, having them take my yoga classes: Continental Place Yoga and the Tuesday outdoor Yoga [...]
Once upon a time I was going to write a blog post titled In Her Shoes, but I never wrote it. After my mom passed away and I had to help go through her belongings, I discovered that her brand-new never-worn shoes and her barely-worn vintage size 8 shoes somehow [...]
