Category: December

Not Your Typical Monday

Posted in 12 Days of Christmas, board and care, California, care giver, caregiver, December, Ellen, hospice, memoir, phone call, relationshipsLeave a comment

(re-run) Ellen DeGeneres has a special twelve-day Christmas giveaway on her show this month. I have rearranged my schedule to be at my sister’s board and care home at 4:00 each day so that we can watch the audience go wild when they get free stuff. It seems like a nice break from the fixer-upper… Continue reading Not Your Typical Monday

Frostbite Memories

Posted in beach, California, college, December, dog walks, dogs, frostbite, gardening, Iowa, memoir, Monterey Bay, old lady card, tourists, tree trimmer, trees, wind, winter breakLeave a comment

Today the sun was shining, the ocean was royal blue and the wind was bitter cold. I had the dog on a choke chain since I couldn’t squeeze the prong collar back together (I’d taken it apart in the wrong place).  I headed down my street past a tree- trimmer truck that has just pulled… Continue reading Frostbite Memories

The Busted Nut

Posted in Badlands, Bed & Breakfast, Black Hills, Crazy Horse, December, Iowa, Lakota Sioux, memoir, Mount Rushmore, Native Americans, Rapid City, restaurant, salad bar, South DakotaLeave a comment

(re-run) A decade ago, my boyfriend (at the time) and I took a driving vacation from my mom’s place in Iowa, up to Sioux Falls, and across South Dakota to Rapid City, Mount Rushmore, and Crazy Horse.  I’d never seen the Badlands or the Black Hills. First we heard the story of Mount Rushmore, USA… Continue reading The Busted Nut