We're finishing another Christmas season, headed into the final week of 2021 and a time of looking back and evaluating what's been accomplished over the past year. If you had resolutions-- did you keep them? If you called them goals-- did you achieve them? How are you better or worse off than you were on … Continue reading Pondering the Past Year
Month: December 2021
Real and Imagined
Back in the fall, I was walking to the park with my three-year old grandson, Baker. A bird flew passed us and Baker said to me, "Grammy, birds are my friends." I looked at the delight on his face, watching the bird headed to a nearby branch of a crepe myrtle tree. "How do you … Continue reading Real and Imagined
Looking Back on 2021: Online Dating
As we approach the close of 2021, I look back on my year of online dating experiences. I did my first blog post about that on March 7th and this one makes number twelve. As I embraced the process, I increased the number of dating sites I was on from one to four; I'd been … Continue reading Looking Back on 2021: Online Dating
Year of Waiting
2021 has been a year of waiting; the coronavirus has forced changes around our world, impacting us collectively and personally. We've waited for news of improving conditions, for the lockdown to be lifted, flights to open up. We've waited at bedsides, outside of windows of elderly nursing home residents, at the safe-six-foot-distance in grocery lines. … Continue reading Year of Waiting