After last month’s scare over the health of my niece and sister, I started July with a renewed sense of purpose to return to my optimum health. I did a little research and learned a…Continue Reading
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Celebrating life
My family had a big scare last week. My niece was rushed into the emergency room on Saturday unable to breathe. She was immediately put on a ventilator and by the following Friday, she was…Continue Reading
Leave yesterday in the dust
A funny thing happened while riding my bicycle Sunday morning. It was such a subtle shift in thinking I almost didn’t appreciate the gravity of it. John and I have a tradition of riding our…Continue Reading
Sometimes the journey is the destination
This past weekend, John and I decided it was time to go for a ride exploring the Ojai Valley by motorcycle. The last few months have been chilly and rainy and we missed our fun…Continue Reading
If you win the rat race are you still a rat? – How Instagram and Facebook have become the new rat race
I have found myself running a race on a treadmill, and I am going to step off. When I started my blog two years ago, I knew I wanted to start a Facebook page and…Continue Reading
Ding, Ding, Ding went the Trolley
Hop on board for a one day tour of San Francisco. What is the difference between streetcars with cables, cable cars, trolleys and trolley tours? Turns out, a lot. Whenever John and I travel, we…Continue Reading
The meaning of Memorial Day
For many families, Memorial Day is a somber day of remembrance. I don’t pretend to understand how devastating it is for military families who lose a loved one. Luckily all of my brothers came home,…Continue Reading
How to throw the best photo themed 60th birthday party ever
Birthday parties are a lot of fun and a lot of work. I have known for a long time that I wanted a big birthday party to celebrate my 60th year, and it turned out…Continue Reading
Counting up to 60 and what I’ve learned – decade six
I breathed a big sigh of relief when I turned 50. My 40’s had been some pretty rough years. Oprah reached that milestone five years ahead of me. She showed the world that 50 was…Continue Reading
Counting up to 60 and what I learned – decade five
Have you ever seen the movie, “Runaway Bride” with Julia Roberts? While I can’t relate to her running at the altar, I can relate to the fact that she didn’t know who she was and…Continue Reading
Counting up to 60 and what I learned – decade four
I’ve heard it said that a grain of sand can tip the scale, but in my opinion it is the pile of sand before it that rarely gets the attention. By the time I reached…Continue Reading
Counting up to 60 and what I learned – decade three
I find it interesting that reaching a certain age holds more significance than other ages. For me, turning 20 was important. I was no longer a teenager and somehow felt more grown-up. Things quickly fell…Continue Reading
Counting up to 60 and what I learned – the second decade
I remember thinking when my oldest son turned 10, in the same amount of time he will be a man. The decade between 10 and 20 holds so many changes, and I was no exception…Continue Reading
Counting up to 60 and what I’ve learned – The first decade
I was born in 1959 in a little town in Northern California. While that is probably not very significant, the fact that I was my mother’s ninth child, my father’s tenth child and my parents’…Continue Reading
Introducing the Introspective Adventurer
The countdown to 60 is nearly over! I had this great plan to come up with a new name and have a blog post ready and everything in place on May 10th, and I was…Continue Reading
The third ingredient
By the time we reach 50 years old, most of us are pretty set in our ways. We know what we like and don’t like, we know just how things should be done and we…Continue Reading
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes…
The day after our wedding we left our hotel in San Francisco to go explore the city. It was a beautiful spring day, and we were excited to spend the day together as husband and…Continue Reading
National Tartan Day
National Tartan Day was Saturday, April 6th, which was also my mother’s and younger brother’s birthdays, so I am a little late to the party. But I can’t pass up the opportunity to share a…Continue Reading
The Yellow Brick Road
You know when you have so much you want to do you don’t know where to start, so you don’t do anything at all? Yeah, that has been me for the last few months. My…Continue Reading
A sense of loss
The last two weeks have been a whirlwind for me. I cut my hair short; we went north to San Francisco to celebrate our anniversary, we went south to Murrieta courtesy of Explore Murrieta and…Continue Reading