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, […]
On last weekās blog I talked about some big changes around here and this is the deal. I am a retirement failure. I struggled long and hard before I made the decision to quit my job in April. I liked my job, my boss and my team, but I needed more time and more balance […]
What a week. I literally pray for rain during the monsoons and then the week we get our roof replaced, we get a record-breaking rain that came from who knows where and really screwed things up. We had buckets everywhere and I walked around with my Clorox wipes every day. The noise and all the […]
Like so many others, when all the stars align, I love group exercise classes. Stars aligning include: A good teacher who keeps the class moving, has good technique, interesting choreography, good music and a pleasing personality The class is at a time when I can attend Includes moves I can actually do I can no […]
I took so many Sociology classes in college; I could have been considered a Sociology minor.Ā I loved those classes.Ā I loved the professor.Ā I loved her vocabulary.Ā I loved thinking in new ways quite different from how Iād been exposed to the world.Ā I especially loved that I could vomit on paper and get […]
Among all of last weekās activities, probably the biggest was visiting Frank Lloyd Wrightās winter home and architectural school, Taliesin West.Ā Itās located about 30 minutes from our home in the desert hills of Scottsdale.Ā We went with the University of Denver alum group to a Night Lights Tour which is a comprehensive two-hour guided […]