My Field Days

I am a stubborn person.  Again readers… let me thank you for giving me all this time and space to make these confessions.  Continuing on.  I have these fetishes.  They make no sense, but there they are.  I’ll share this one with you. I am not a big fan of the sweets.  So I like [...]

I guess having a blog makes you think your life has to be a transparent set of confessions.  Somehow I always feel compelled to tell you these things!  And I’m sorry… I’m sure it’s all quite boring… but I sure get a kick out of it! On my walk a couple of days ago, this [...]

You know how you sometimes wish you could bottle a fragrance, and pull it out for special memories on down the road?  When I hear this sound, I always wish it could be captured in the same way.  It’s the happy chatter of the playground. I live two or three blocks from an elementary school.  [...]

I always say “I can’t” in Spanish.  Analyzing that today.  I don’t like to say I can’t do something… so perhaps I soften the blow if I don’t say it in my native tongue.  Ha!  You know how we learn to say “I love you” in various languages?  I should learn to say “I can’t” [...]

Some really happy times in my life were spent riding around in big white cars.  (“One Great Waitress” got me thinking about that.)  They were Cadillacs.  My grandparents did love their big white Cadillacs.  My earliest memory may be of the very first one ever purchased.  I was a little girl, I was standing on [...]

It’s been a day of turmoil.  I don’t keep my television on all day… but today I did.  The events in Egypt held us all in suspense. Turmoil is all around me today.  Friends with heart-wrenching family situations.  Friends with problems on the job.  Friends literally dying from disease. I took my walk this afternoon, [...]