My Field Days

I’m changing sheets in the guest bedroom.  We have a weekend guest.  And I’ll change them again for next weekend… and the next guests. They’re cotton sheets, and they’re wrinkly.  I’m washing the pillowcases just hours before our guest arrives so they’ll smell oh-so-fresh… but I’m not ironing. After all, we’ve got graduation ceremonies to [...]

I love excellence.  I really do.  I strive for it some areas of my life.  But I know my limitations.  I can’t play the piano.   Would love to.  Have tried.  Can’t do it.  I may plink around on a keyboard from time to time… but no one would ever ask me to play for the [...]

Alrighty then… feeling like I should just put out a little disclaimer about the previous post. I’ve received so many nice comments – on the blog, on Facebook, through e-mail… and I think I probably went too far when I said the scene “plagued me”.  Because truly… I am able to sleep at night.  Well, [...]

Just need to write this down.  Get it off my chest.  It may not make the blog… but at least I’m putting it down in black and white, and we shall see what we shall see.  (Looks like I’ve decided to post it!) Today I tried to make amends.  Didn’t happen.  I don’t know how [...]

My childhood cats were white.  Whitey showed up at our house by riding in the underside of our Grandma’s car one day.  We begged to keep her and she moved into our hearts.  Years later when she died, we got another white cat.  We named her Whitey.  She lived a very long life, well into [...]