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Sometimes you have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down. In the new forty that is what I am doing – building my wings.

Category: Family & Parenting

Don’t Rain on My Parade Québec!

May 29, 2016 Ms. CLeave a comment

I am on the annual Oprah and Gayle pilgrimage to Québec , Canada to visit my darling grandchildren, Noah Jr. and Cortney, with my son Noah. The pilgrimage was so named long ago as an homage to Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King's Big Adventure - a 10 day road trip from California to New York. [...]

Posted in Family & Parenting, TravelTagged family, Gayle King, grandchildren, Humor, noah, Oprah, Travel

Apparently, this is grandma’s car!

May 26, 2016April 14, 2018 Ms. C1 Comment

It only took about two and a half years with my Kia Sorento for me to start looking for an exit strategy.  I am not sure exactly where it started going downhill, but once I started talking about my lackluster appreciation for the Kia to anyone who would listen, I knew I already had one foot out [...]

Posted in Automotive, Family & Parenting, Hobbies & InterestsTagged Buick Regal, grandma, Kia Sorento

Why?

May 20, 2016 Ms. C2 Comments

A 17 year old teenager in the West Fargo School District committed suicide on Wednesday. West Fargo students were informed of the suicide yesterday. My daughter Cheyenne told me about it when she came home from school and after my initial shock my first question was, "Why?" Cheyenne did not know the answer to this [...]

Posted in Family & Parenting, Health & Fitness, NewsTagged death, loss, mental health, suicide, teenagers, West Fargo School District

Everyone needs a little Lucy in their life…

May 19, 2016 Ms. C1 Comment

I never imagined I would be an Ethel, until I was. I believed for a long time that being an Ethel meant doing what was expected and safe. Frankly, being an Ethel seemed dull. Not that anyone saw me as an Ethel, everyone assumed I was all Lucy, all the time. But the line between [...]

Posted in Family & ParentingTagged friends, friendship, happiness, life, living, lucy and ethel, Tammy Karlgaard

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