Today my third oldest child (or conversely my second youngest child) - Cory - turned 23. Holy moly...where did the time go? This year my oldest child will turn...GULP...30!!! I never thought I would be more horrified about someone else's age than my own - but goodness gracious - having a child who is almost [...]
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Year two of the new forty starts here…
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.” ~ Robert Frost A year ago I entered the new forty with a promise to self - write every day for me. That promise was the genesis of this blog. A year and over 217,000 blog views later, one could [...]
I can hear it now…”OMG Ethel! What have you done??!!”
Tam & I in Florida in 2003 Today is my friend Tam's birthday. I cannot tell you which year this is for her lest she kill me, but suffice to say she is close to a couple of decades younger than me. In the great pairings of mischief making women in the world - Tam [...]
Beyond the traditional birthday gifts…
Cheyenne is an interesting kid. In-between developing and fine-tuning her delightful "tween" attitude she reads and ponders many things. She believes wholeheartedly that she can contribute to the abatement of the world's ills. She read in a magazine a couple of months ago about birthday parties wherein the birthday girl or boy asked that party [...]
THE NEW FORTY 