This is the third blog post Iāve started for this week. Everything I have wanted to write about keeps bogging me down and feels too weighty for this place and this time. I really want to write about something a little more substantial than our good weather, but it keeps coming back to that. With […]
There is a very good reason why I moved to a place that has hellaciously hot summers.Ā It is for the short winters, of course.Ā We in Arizona are rewarded with falls that are more like what I call summer-lite ā hot days and cool nights.Ā Spring generally starts early here and I can generally […]
Isnāt what makes romantic love special the fact that it’s exclusionary?Ā Itās different from familial or friendship love because you love that one person differently from all others and it is conditional rather than unconditional.Ā So how in the world did Valentineās Day become a day when little children send cards to every other child […]
I absolutely love math. Ā That is either a crazy affirmation statement that makes me hope someday I will supernaturally be good at it or itās the biggest lie Iāve ever told. Ā I donāt love math, but I love the ideaĀ of math. Ā Iāve seen movies about math. Ā A Beautiful Mind, Enigma, The Theory of Everything, Hidden […]
For some, this season of life is retirement, for others itās more empty nesting. I know many of you are caretakers of elderly family members or are still really involved with children or grandchildren, so you are part of the sandwich generation. I guess for me itās really pre-retirement. I got a small taste of […]
Last week after seeing Summer at Gammage Theater, our group had dinner at Taphouse Kitchen and DF Evon ordered a glass of Virginia Dare pinot noir. I donāt drink red, so I never look at the offerings on that part of the menu and I didn’t see that particular wine, but when she ordered it, […]
No mystery that I love reading mysteries and thrillers. The prepared protagonists always have bug-out bags at the ready. They contain a high-powered weapon, a burner phone, a little food and drink , a few new IDs and lots of cash. Of course, they have led exciting and dangerous lives and need to have this […]
If youāre a gym person, or in fact a person who gets any physical activity at all, you know the gyms and walking trails are pretty lonely places to be in December. But in January! Your favorite machine is taken by some lumpy, grumpy stranger and the walking trails are full of people huffing along […]
āInconceivableā! āYou keep using that word.Ā I do not think it means what you think it means.āĀ Cult favorite The Princess Bride has so many famous quotes, but really, I love that someone is called out for misusing a word.Ā I am just sitting here chuckling as I think about it.Ā And I think about […]
Saturday night at around 9 p.m. the sun was the farthest south in the Northern Hemisphere, otherwise known as the Winter Solstice.Ā This day also marks the first day of winter in the astronomical definition and winter lasts until the vernal equinox March 20.Ā The Winter Solstice marks the lengthening of days, and as such, […]