The Ribbon of Road Ahead

What do you think when you hear the word “left-over”? Is it different than the word leftovers? What did I have for dinner that would make a good lunch for today? ` What’s in the fridge that was great last night and will taste even better than the first time around. Moms’ meatloaf! Put it…

We arrived in Colorado Springs about 6 pm, missing the evening traffic. We pulled up to the motel where I had secured  a room for the next two nights.  I sat in the van while Charlie registered.  It seemed like it was taking a long time when  he came out with a mountain of sheets…

I use it to mean odd, unusual, and sometimes I use it when I really want to say a swear word. We are hardy campers, Charlie and me. It’s just getting to where we are going to lay our heads that is sometimes the challenge. More on the stress of navigating in another blog post…

The first stop on this grand tour was Lewiston Idaho where I was welcomed by Coach Jennifer Ford and her Lewis and Clark Valley Rock Steady Boxers. This was my first time in a live training session and wow was I surprised at the level of difficulty the workout presented. The strength and endurance these…

here we gooooooooo……..follow along. Here’s a challenge. Which of these people will we see on this trip?

Kittens We have kittens at our house.  This surprises some of my readers who know that I am allergic to cat hair. I am also allergic to dogs, pollen, dust, sage. Tumbleweed, latex, glue that is used in surgery.  The list goes on and on. In short, I am allergic to almost everything.  I had…

A Spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down Forty years ago I walked into West Park Elementary and introduced myself to the secretary as Carol Kleespies, the speech pathologist assigned from the Education Service District.  She took me around the corner to Principal Stine’s office and invited me to sit down in the chair…

Piles of stuff  August 10 There are several workstations around my house.  The office has a desktop computer and piles of papers.  The hallway has a table and chairs and right now has piles of cables and wires.   The kitchen table is a good workstation for drawing. But now I must clean up the piles…

My steps through the sand and grass were slow and deliberate.  I held in my left hand a spinning rod and used my right hand to balance on air.  Charlie, Luke and I hired a guide to take us freshwater fishing.  We followed her, single file across a thin slice of land created by an…