For several years I found myself spending more and more time wrestling with technology and less time doing the things I loved. Every software update, every new password, every account change felt like another tollbooth on the road to the things I really wanted to do. Then something unexpected happened… Over the past few months
When Marie and I sat down to watch Ordinary Angels neither of us could remember whether we had seen it or not—a common occurrence for us. In the story a struggling hairdresser finds a renewed sense of purpose when she meets a widowed father working hard to care for his two daughters. With his youngest,
At 85 years old I discovered a new passion – baking birthday cakes. And I stumbled onto it quite by accident. Our choir director Ray Wheeler signed us all up for a cake walk to raise funds for scholarships. I had no idea what a cake walk was but I knew that, as a member,
Although I don’t think I have any salmon blood in me, I seem to have spent most of my life swimming against the flow. Three of my lifelong passions are decidedly not in the mainstream … but they date back to my earliest years. Country Music My car radio is permanently tuned to Willie’s Roadhouse.
Do I miss it? Hardly. Still today, when Marie and I see a magazine rack, we look at each other, smile, and say, “Aren’t you glad we no longer care that our magazines are being buried behind the competition?”
