When our kids were growing up nearly all of our family vacations involved camping in one form or another. We took our first family camping trip when our son was just 3 month’s old to Lake Mary near Mammoth Lake, California. We had a new Volkswagen Van and, although it wasn’t a camper model, it […]
Monthly Archives: June 2014
I received an email from a friend of mine, Scott, in California telling me that today, June 19th, is National Martini Day. He wanted to know, given that fact, if we planned to have a Martini Thursday in addition to our traditional Martini Friday that we enjoy every other week of the year. Now […]
Last weekend, my brother took his first hot air balloon ride near his home in Boise Idaho. He posted a couple of photographs documenting the event on his Facebook page. In response I commented that I noticed his wife wasn’t in any of the pictures. He replied that ballooning wasn’t on her “Bucket List” but […]
Sometimes sleep eludes me. Most often it has nothing to do with how tired I am or what time I go to bed. In fact, I usually have little trouble falling asleep, especially on days when I have been physically active. I have a fairly regular bedtime and a routine of taking a warm shower […]
My children are both grown and have not lived at home since they graduated from high school, save for summers and school holidays while they were in college. They both have professional careers, are debt free, rent their own apartments, cook, clean, and do all the things that we hope that young adults will be […]
In my last post I talked about how entering retirement debt free was probably the best pre-retirement decision I made. Or more accurately, the best decision my husband and I made together. But after we both retired and settled in Maine near the state’s flagship university, we made what just might be our best post-retirement […]
This summer I am in my tenth year of retirement. I was offered an early retirement from the Postal Service that allowed me to say goodbye to the daily grind as a Postmaster at the age of 50. It was the best decision I have ever made but it was not an easy one. My […]
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