at work, and then off to Sis’s for a week or so. We’re driving, as you know, so we might opt to stay a few extra days. We’ll see. It seems important to have a few days to wind down on the other side of the trip before going back to work, so we may [...]

…at girls who wear glasses”. SO, I guess it’s a good thing I’m not a GIRL anymore (nor am I interested in having passes made at me - too freaking old), because I have just joined the glasses-wearing crowd! Here I am in my new shades: (Of course you young-un’s won’t remember the above quote; [...]

My kids are growing up. Well, they’re all grown up, if I have to be completely and painfully accurate. And, any of you who have even a passing familiarity with this here blog know that I love my darling offspring very, very much. BUT, I am just now realizing - perhaps not exactly in epiphanic [...]

Kinda, sorta. I AM in a slightly better frame of mind than I was yesterday; it was hot and humid during the morning and early afternoon hours, but a late afternoon thunder storm seems to have cleared things away, and tonight it’s actually rather pleasant - even without the AC on, miracle of miracles! I [...]

Yeah. That’s me on the far left, alright. This is the reson why I could never, ever, EVER live in Florida, y’know? I am sooo intolerant of humidity, and it seems like so far this summer, we’ve either had rain and gray skies or sun, but with about 95% humidity to go along with it. [...]

REALLY! And yesterday, too! And Monday too! I am no longer depressed. DH & I did a lot of housecleaning chores Monday morning and then went to Regatta Point on Lake Quinsigamond (only a stone’s throw from our house) and did a brisk hour’s walk followed by an hour on our beach chairs, reading and [...]

Or…..”My Life As A Damp, Crabby and Depressed Old Hogwart”. Okay, I don’t exactly know what a hogwart is (isn’t it some sort of creature out of the Harry Potter books or something? Or are they real snorting, snarfeling things that root through the undergrowth and resemble actual hogs?) I haven’t read the Harry Potter books, [...]

Oh, yeah. Monsoon season is upon us. Monsoon season? In Massachusetts, you ask? Oh, yes indeed. The weather patterns, they are a’changin…and that’s the truth. Now you can pooh-pooh Al Gore & global warming warnings all you like, but the proof, as they say, is in the pudding - or in this particular case, in [...]

That great big glass building in the upper left, in case you didn’t know, is the Prudential or “Pru” Tower. The very top is a restaurant with a revolving floor that allows diners to look out in every direction. The view is downright astonishing. I only go up there a few times a year, and [...]

Just busy, that’s all. Nothing special or exciting - just busy. We had a fundraising reception with a whole bunch of muckety-mucks at the Boston College Club, which is on the 36th (or 39th - I’m not sure) floor of the Bank of America corporate (Boston) headquarters overlooking Boston Harbor, and the view was simply [...]