I have been humming a familiar song over the past week - Baby Mine. You most likely remember this song from the animated Disney film Dumbo (if you are old enough to remember that film). If not, take a listen to Bette Midler's version paired with footage from the film...it is the sweetest song. It always reminds [...]
Tag: celebration
I love my peeps!
When I say, "I love my peeps!" - it is subject to contextual analysis. I use the term "peeps" both in the slang context and in the literal context. In the slang context I mean my people, my tribe, my wild and wacky collection of friends and family...I love my peeps! In the literal context I [...]
4,748 days trumps 1,000!
This is a big day in our little part of the universe. Can you guess what it is? I know one of your first guesses might be that this blog post is the 1,000th blog post of The New Forty. 1,000 days and 1,000 entries...that is pretty big considering where I started and my initial [...]
Feliz Navidad!!!!
I don't think anyone would ever accuse my family of being staunch traditionalists. We are more concerned with doing what we like to do as a family over the holidays rather than what "tradition" might dictate makes for the essential holiday experience. Not that we don't have "family traditions" - we most certainly do. But [...]
Wanted dead or alive…
I heard yesterday that one of my colleagues in the field of emergency management died. She wasn't all that old (but age is relative to how old you are and having arrived at the new forty I can only say - she was "older" than me, but not "old"). It seems I have heard about [...]
THE NEW FORTY 