Ten years ago today I was in Washington, DC at a conference at the Willard Hotel.  The night before I had been out for drinks with an Australian news crew who was in town with their Prime Minister.  They had been talking about what a boring trip it had been.  I often think back on that comment when one of my children says that the day is “boring”....

I had the good fortune of getting a last minute invitation to the  Zak Brown Band at Red Rocks on Monday night.  Typically I make all kinds of excuses when things come up spontaneously.  I like to plan things out.  And I am definitely not spontaneous if I don’t know anything about the venue, restaurant, etc.  I didn’t know a thing about the Zak Brown...

A few weeks ago I wrote about the chaos in my garden – my daughter’s description, not necessarily mine.  I find the them of trying to find “order” in my life keeps coming back over and over.  Moving my blog over to this URL I am still missing a few key elements from my other site.  One of them, my oldest, in length of years not in age,...

As I was sorting through the books on the shelves trying to decide which of my “babies” to part with in the garage sale I came upon a book I read several years back called “Sync – How Order Emerges From Chaos in the Universe, Nature and Daily Life” by Steven Strogatz.   Sounds a bit dry to you I imagine.  It did to me at first too but...

Another busy afternoon in the kitchen.  After a morning of cleaning up computer files and sorting things for the upcoming garage sale, cooking seemed like a good break.  John wanted something light for dinner – soup and salads.  At first thought that seems like it wouldn’t take too much time to put together.  Not so, not so.  One of John’s...

This has been a week of digging in to the past in a multitude of ways and cleaning my “mental house” in the process.  First of all, I am having a garage sale in two weeks and have to get through all the boxes that are story my mother’s things, John’s things, my old things, Lindsay’s things, Mary Mac’s things, things, things,...

I just found this post from my blog back in 2007.  I made these yummy breakfast buns last weekend for the first time in 4 years.  Why did I wait so long.  You should try them this weekend.   From March 2007 This morning I made homemade cinnamon buns. I was thinking this was going to be a lot of trouble as yeast breads usually are. I was surprised. I got the...

I was going through some old blog entries as I am moving them over to this new domain.  I love Baxter Black, the Cowboy Poet.  He used to be on NPR on occasion.  This is a youtube video he made about the sacrifices others have made so that we can enjoy a our lives.  We are so lucky to be Americans, yet we often take for granted all the sacrifice that has given us...

 Yesterday I read a tidbit in Real Simple Magazine. It said that according to research by McCann Worldgroup 53% of 16 to 22-year-olds around the world would rather give up their sense of smell than their favorite personal technology device. It took a minute or two for that to sink it. I could argue about their sample size and what countries they surveyed to argue...

Today is a very sad day. I don’t know if many of you have heard of the pine beetle or not. It has been devastating the pine forests in the mountains of Colorado for several years now. We saw a similar epidemic on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska several years ago when we were visiting. Over a million acres of forest in the Kenai have been killed by the beetle in...