Did I just give you an earworm? It’s a familiar song, and I’m sure for many it brings up images of that iconic ride at Disneyland or Disneyworld. But I needed to travel to Hillsboro, New Mexico, to discover just how small a world it actually is! Kelly and I have been looking for a…

A friend recommended I read Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. Turns out the book was already sitting in my Kindle library, in my digital TBR stack: books To-Be-Read at some future date, most often defined as ‘someday.’ Well, ‘someday’ arrived unexpectedly with that recommendation, as I finally pulled up Big Magic and started to read.…

I’m back! Did you miss me? I’ve been kind of busy lately, training to become a Reiki practitioner. I guess you might say I’m in the process of fitting more pieces together, assembling this grand project called Life. Many parts have come together recently, but there are still a lot of pieces lying in a…

The name ‘LEGO’ is an abbreviation of the two Danish words “leg godt”, meaning “play well”. And while the LEGO company has been building toys since 1932, the LEGO brick itself originated in 1958. The LEGOs that I “play well” with today are almost as old as I am! While LEGO was originally created as…

It is time, as we near the close of this year, to reflect a bit on what has gone before. It is time also to look forward and set intentions for the year to come. Time to get off of this safe rock midstream and venture onward. What lies beyond the bend? Much has transpired…

Do you like roller coasters? I still remember my first. I was probably around 12 years old and was spending a day with a new friend at Lakeside Amusement Park in Salem, Virginia. She persuaded me to get on the Shooting Star, a vintage wooden roller coaster. I rode, hands tightly clutching the bar in…

While I was driving the vanpool van home from the office earlier this week, I found myself in an odd emotional state. I was a bit sad, a bit lonely, a bit longing for something that was out of reach. Of course this was another facet of my grief, but the combination of feelings caught…

Anticip… (Wait for it…) Have you ever been to see Rocky Horror Picture Show? In a crowded theater? If not, you are still considered a “virgin.” My virgin experience with Rocky Horror Picture Show was a midnight movie in the fall of 1979 at Georgetown’s Key Theater in Washington D.C. I’m not sure what I…

 “Don’t be surprised at how quickly the Universe will move with you once you have made your choice.” That message was recently given to me by a friend. I was rather out of sorts at the time; I had run across an image of four snowmen in stocking caps, and it so closely resembled one…

I have officially made it through my first major holiday without Faith. It went pretty well, all things considered. A friend drove down from Albuquerque to stay a couple of nights, so I wasn’t alone. Another friend joined us for Thanksgiving dinner, and I spent time with even more friends later on in a zoom…