At the beginning of the year, my daughter-in-law told me about her friend who spends the month of January using up the items in her freezer. It wasn’t a challenge, but I accepted it anyway – mostly because getting the freezer opened and closed was starting to become a problem. The goal was to use…
My Top Ten Book Recommendations
Most of my friends know how much I love to read, so I often get asked for a suggestion from someone going on vacation or who needs a distraction from real life. I decided after my last request that perhaps now would be a good time to make a list of my top favorite books…
2022 Year in Review
As I’ve done in years past, I’m taking some time to sum up 2022 with a picture from each month. Not much happened in January. I had spinal cord surgery in December and spent most of January recovering and staying warm inside (mostly staying warm, recovery was actually pretty quick). But this sunset view from…
Kick Loneliness to the Curb
Last week I learned that one of my friends is struggling with loneliness. She recently moved and is having a hard time getting to know people. Remembering I had written a blog about ways to help deal with loneliness, I searched for it to see if it was worthy of being passed along to my…
Gratitude
This past summer, we renovated our home. About 80% of our upstairs got new paint and flooring, and 80% of our downstairs got new carpet. To get the rooms ready for the renovation, we had to move everything out of the rooms that got new flooring. We didn’t actually do any of the physical work…