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C is for Choices

December 15, 2025December 12, 2025 Posted in attitude, babies, best, bucket list, California, cats, childhood, choices, chorus, climate change, dating, dogs, ex-boyfriend, expectations, friends, gender, high school, humor, memoir, relationships1 Comment

Life is a series of choices: what to eat for breakfast, what college to go to, which person to marry, whether to see the cup half full or half empty. It’s much easier to look back at life and say what choices were good or bad. Whatever they were, they got you to where you… Continue reading C is for Choices

The Road Not Taken

November 1, 2025October 31, 2025 Posted in choices, GPS, house, memoir, neighborhood, neighbors, Prius, stop lights, stop signs, trafficLeave a comment

(re-run) GPS is a wonderful thing. I didn’t choose it; it chose me, being included with the 2014 Prius close-out car that I bought in November of that year. It was time to make way for the 2015 models. It was marked down. I bought it. If I’m coming back from a new place with… Continue reading The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken

March 6, 2025March 5, 2025 Posted in choices, GPS, house, memoir, neighborhood, neighbors, Prius, stop lights, stop signs, trafficLeave a comment

Holiday Heartache

December 12, 2024December 11, 2024 Posted in aerobics, Bah Humbug, binge watching, California, children, choices, chorus, Christmas, daughter, divorce, empathy, empty nester, fainting, family, girlfriends, holidays, homeless, Medicare, poem, relationships, Uncategorized, writingLeave a comment

(re-run from 2019) As I sit here on a Sunday afternoon, I have fluffy white “Iowa” clouds (cumulus) out the windows across the back of my house. I used to look into a wall, but that baby is gone, and now I have nature. This month has been so full already, three chorus concerts with… Continue reading Holiday Heartache

The Road Not Taken

June 14, 2023June 14, 2023 Posted in choices, GPS, house, memoir, neighborhood, neighbors, Prius, stop lights, stop signs, trafficLeave a comment

GPS is a wonderful thing. I didn’t choose it; it chose me, being included with the 2014 Prius close-out car that I bought in November of that year. It was time to make way for the 2015 models. It was marked down. I bought it. If I’m coming back from a new place with GPS… Continue reading The Road Not Taken

Expectations

July 19, 2019July 18, 2019 Posted in attitude, California, carpool, choices, chorus, dancing, Democrats, dinner, dreams, empathy, expectations, honesty, honey-do list, humor, husband, Jack Russell terrier, judgment, live music, preferences, relationships, socialist, texting4 Comments

It’s funny how you notice other people’s expectations and how they sometimes don’t align with your own. How they expect you to be available seven nights a week to do stuff. How they expect you to be hungry at regular meal times, even though your schedule is uniquely your own. How they expect you to… Continue reading Expectations