Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After
Rediscovering Life after Retirement
Doing what I love with those I love most.
Happy Thanksgiving, friends! I’m as full as a tick, as my Missouri mama would say. While I didn’t completely clean my plate – the one in the photo above is actually PC’s – I didn’t leave much for the dishwasher at Bob Evans to do. Which reminds me of a little joke… What do you […]
Hello, sweet friends! Taking a few minutes this Sunday morning to send you hugs of hello from Lexington, Kentucky. The selfies above are of a sleepy me on the second leg of my early morning (6:30 am) flight to the Blue Grass state. I am here, visiting this lady. My 88 year-old mom. She is […]
Hi friends! Can you believe we are half-way through the month of November? Thanksgiving is almost here and Christmas, just around the corner. Not sure how that happened. Likewise, it seems like I went to sleep a young mother one night and woke up a grandma. Not sure how that happened either. I am linking […]
Hey, gals! ‘Tis the season of eating good and good eats. I am seeing recipes for soups and chilis on all of the blogs I follow. Decided I better get on the bandwagon lest you think I don’t cook over here (feel pretty sure you know I eat). PC and I are truly trying to […]
Hey Gals! Hope you won’t notice that today is Tuesday, in fact, if I don’t type fast it will soon be Wednesday (didn’t type fast enough because it is Wednesday now!) but either way, not the first Monday of the month at all. I know my secret is safe with you, though. We are talking […]
Happy Day of the Dead! I am writing this post about one of my favorite holidays; one I first discovered after moving to El Paso, Texas, where the community is predominantly of Hispanic/Mexican descent. There are no mascots or magical characters associated with this holiday. No gift-giving. No cavity-causing candy. It is really just […]