The Ribbon of Road Ahead

On the way to Nagisaki If you could make someone’s wish come true, wouldn’t you do it? And what if, in your efforts to do it, it became your wish also? What would you say? What if this wish changed you from tourist to pilgim? BakerDioceseYouthLeadershipCamp people: Do you have this memory from Camp White…

  I once asked a very honest friend “what do I look like?”  “What do you mean, what do you look like?”  was her response. “ I mean do I look like a woman with a disability?”  “Yes Carol, you look like a 50 something-year-old woman with Parkinson’s Disease.” I feel as if I have…

How do I make my book grow?  One suggestion was “BLOG”.  But what if I don’t like to blog?  I mean, doesn’t it take time to research meaningful topics. And then  I would have to get people to read my blog.  Do I really have to advertise?  How about if I just write stuff and…

Ah it was a lovely day to go on a long bike ride…oops that was yesterday.  We rode from home to the Space age Truck stop  (about 5 miles) and got some essentials like KIND bars and lemon drops.  A slight break with some stretching on the cool grass and we were off again to…

Independence and Dependence I find that I need more and more help with things.  When there is something I think I can do by myself, I jump at the opportunity.  For example, on Fridays I meet my friends Ron and Anne at the Buttercreek Coffee Shop in Echo for a couple hours of bluegrass, Irish…

I wrote this over a year ago.I came across it while looking for a another document and thought it worth reposting. Jesus is their passion March 29, 2018 · Charlie has been visiting the prison for a Saturday morning bible study for almost 18 years. The men come and go, but the small group of…

Here are some comments I have received Carol. Thank you. Wow, amazing work on your book. Thank you for sharing your story, your journey. I have admired you in your work, and even more now in the way you have been tackling your Parkinson’s. I know many who have a chronic illness, my mom being…

What’s in the ditch? In my book “The Ribbon of Road Ahead” I wrote about what I did to entertain myself while riding in the “stokers” seat on the tandem bike. I think I built a car and ran it on whiskey fumes from items found in the ditch on Despain Gulch Road, but you…

I am 5 days into a transition of medications. I am changing from one antidepresent that I have used for many years to a new mediucation which may help me with some of the neuropathy in my feet. The transition has been going well. Not that this is a bad thing, but today I felt…