Helpless?

What a week! On Monday I returned to Toastmasters. I hadn’t been there since I finished my Competent Communicator book back in June. I was welcomed back with open arms, and when I was introduced to give the quote of the day, the applause was thunderous. It was nice to feel so welcomed and to […]

Costa Rica Zipline Video

I hereby present my first video made with GoPro Studio! You might be surprised by how long it actually took to make this, and as I watch, I keep seeing bits and pieces I want to modify, but I will leave it at this…. it is my first try, after all. 🙂 I hope you […]

Looking Back and Forging Ahead

There’s a lot of negativity online regarding 2016. It does seem like there have been more celebrity deaths than normal, and of course, the hostility surrounding the election has cast a pall over a large part of the year. Outside of our Ameri-centric bubble, things are looking even gloomier other parts of the world – like Syria, for […]

Excuse me, but your roof is full of cacti.

We saw some unusual things in Costa Rica. Unusual to us, that is. Maybe this is a normal situation in warm weather locations. It may be hard to see in the picture, which I snapped as we drove past. This real estate office has a terracotta roof, which was covered with little cacti. I thought it […]

Living la pura vida

Hello! It has been ages since I last wrote, but for good reason. Dave and I were busting our butts to get ready for our trip to Costa Rica! We were there for two whole weeks, which was amazing! It was a much needed break from work and daily life, and a reminder that life […]

Throwback Thursday: If I had 3 Wishes

In first and second grade, my teacher encouraged us to make books so we could practice our writing skills. At the time I was very impressed with myself because I wrote a lot of books. In looking through these “books”, 30 years later, I am amused by the fact that very few of them are […]

What is my life?

As I sit down to write tonight, I’m already irritated because I can’t find the list of writing prompts I thought I’d saved somewhere on my laptop. I’m annoyed because the screen is too bright, even when I finally figure out where to go to turn it all the way down. I’m frustrated because I […]

Throwback Thursday: The Incredible Hulk

Last weekend I went up to Vermont to visit my mom. She had some pictures that she’d gotten from my grandmother, so we went through them together and reminisced. Many of the pictures I had seen before, but this one here, I don’t think I’d ever seen. I must have been about 4 years old. […]

California Dreaming

California recap – continued from my last post. Saturday morning, I woke up and hit the trail. I had my eye on it all week, as it was right across the street from the hotel. Dave and I walk on the rail trail near us quite often, so I thought it would be cool to […]

Good Morning!

I am currently sitting in the Newark airport, trying to keep my eyes open. I had a red-eye flight from Santa Ana, CA that landed here at 4:50 am. My flight to Hartford isn’t until 8:05. I had a hearty breakfast, even though I wasn’t really hungry. I figured it might jump start my body […]