To make my life easy, I stick to shades of blue. This makes clothing selection easy, and there is little anxiety when staring into the closet. I wear loose-fitting soft fabrics for my pants and a cool shirt for my top. Sometimes, I select a print, and other times, I coordinate shades of blue. In…
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Not Really
As a child, spirituality was a saving grace. I believed that when the sun’s rays were blasting through the clouds, forming pillars on the earth, these were signs of the Holy Ghost. In awe, I would immediately pray, imagining these signs were for me and just me. These spiritual signs guided me through a difficult…
Managing Leisure Time in Retirement: My Journey with Reading – Is it a Waste of Time?
Since I retired, time has been there, hanging around and needing to be filled. Work organized my mind and my day; now, it is up to me. Never a slacker, I manage to over-organize my time and don’t waste it. Reading has been my passion and my friend since I was a young child. As…
Getting COVID Vaccine
Getting THE vaccine became a hammer-and-tongs preoccupation! If I could get any of the COVID vaccines, maybe someday I would be able to move about the world freely. I have so wanted to find a way to return to some measure of normalcy. In that, I am no different from everyone in the world. It…
Working Out: Exercise, before the pandemic and now!
Every morning I used to try to walk to the ocean and back. If we were camping, I walked the dog around the campground. If we were visiting children, a brisk walk around the block was the workout for the day. I threw in chair situps and light weights for the arms. Now, I have…
False Flag???
Usually, politics is something I can take or leave. Recently a recurring theme in reporting has been the phrase “False Flag.” This phrase meant nothing to me and factually means nothing. Looking it up does not provide contextual guidance. Wikipedia describes a false flag as an act committed to disguise the actual responsibility and blame…
Keeping Busy During the Pandemic
At certain points during this pandemic, I have wandered around, slightly unnerved by limitations of movement, no favorite restaurant dinners, few safe shopping opportunities, and feel vague and without direction. Oh, I can fill my time, but I have to build my daily schedule as a retiree. I do have a daily list of ToDos,…
Zooming
Until this past year, I never even considered zooming anywhere for maybe the past ten years. I used to work three jobs, and it took plenty of energy to zoom to work and then to teaching in the evening and home to writing all night long. This year I learned to Zoom. Really Zoom. Our…
COVID Vocabulary continued: Virtual Hug, Fist Bump, and Social Distancing
In the interest of documenting the changes in our everyday vocabulary, I periodically have been examining the common use of previously loosely associated phrases. I mean, for goodness sake, who went around saying to close friends, “let’s have a virtual hug?” Having a good squeeze was one of the loveliest expressions of caring between friends,…
COVID-19 Vocabulary #3
Day 3 of reflecting on the new vocabulary common to the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the desirable social distancing, our almost painful new reality, and the politically sensitive face mask. Social Distancing: Once upon a time, this was a phrase implying the appropriate distancing when carrying on a conversation or standing in a public area. Social politeness required the…
Life Gets Better 