People tell me that I’m a very calm person bringing peace wherever I am. I have that feeling after meditation for sure but in all honesty I don’t feel that way all day, and I don’t know what about me transmits that feeling to others. But something interesting has happe...
I’m a planner but now that I am married to a military member I have seen planning at a whole new level. I don’t know if it’s true of all military members but my husband has a motto – plan early, plan often – something I’ve shortened to PEPO. That’s another thing I’ve l...
Waiting. What do you do while waiting? I start off by checking out the other people who are also waiting. Once I'm bored with that my attention moves to reading all the signs on the wall. Then to the phone - any new emails, have I caught up on FB posts - and eventual...
Gardens, gardening, flowers, weeds, bugs, what to put, where and when, never interested me until a few years ago at my last home in Jamaica. There, I found such enjoyment in the garden that I had created and brought to life, and it seemed so effortless at the time that...
I joined a choir! I know, you can’t believe it can you? Neither can I, especially when my husband suggested some time ago it would not be a good idea to sing in public. Well, it’s meant to be a fun thing and those who wish to perform can do so. I went to my first pract...
If there was ever a time to feel this way, the month of December makes you feel it twice as much. You know what I mean, the feeling that there is way too much to do and just not enough time to do it all. Apart from your regular workload there are the extra events and p...
It’s been known to happen, once or twice, that I’ve been thought to be crabby! Hard to believe, I know. On the surface I was sure those thoughts on my crabbiness were incorrect but deep down, well, maybe they were a little true.
