Busy day full of errands. We headed to town at about 11 and made the trip to the tax man (I didn’t have to pay—YAY!), got the oil changed, went to dinner with Deb at Red Lobster (Cajun grouper—yum!), talked to the bank and the finance man about IRA’s, stopped at the library and the […]

Left Champaign after breakfast with Nancy. Highwayed to Louisville with KK listening to a Katherine Valentine book about a haunted rectory–we were expecting a light-hearted yarn about a rug-hooking group of Catholic women and got a scary devil story that neither of us would have picked. Linked up with Brendan and Maria at Lynn’s Paradise […]

Okay, now my son has already warned me about becoming addicted. But there is no chance of that now that I have been burned. I have ordered 7 items so far. I have received 6 in a wonderfully timely fashion. I have paid for everything through Pay-pal. But there is one $10.99 item that I […]

Today I had a colonoscopy. When I told people that I was to have this done, they asked, “Is something wrong?” Now, if there was something wrong, do you think they would want to hear details such as these? Of course, perhaps they didn’t want to hear that I was having one done in the […]

It started out that I was going to teach half the group in the morning and the other half of the group in the afternoon.  The main teacher would be the reading remediation teacher because this was a reading remediation program (now called literacy). We would have 12-15 kindergarten and first graders the first week, […]

After our big day on Friday, I headed to Danville to stop by the art center and see John’s original watercolor for the Brass Band Festival poster. I had to purchase a poster for myself and have it signed. It is magnificent (portraits of various hornblowers)–reminded me of when Wayne and I first came to […]

This is for BCA, ICA, anc CCA.  You can add to the list here or email me.  Audiobooks count. PLUM LOVE (A Stephanie Plum novel)  Janet Evanovich HOT SIX   Same (Aunt Janet got me started on these–she’s a bounty hunter from NJ)  In Process–A ROOM CALLED REMEMBER  Frederick Buechner (writings on faith–he is astounding)                        ANIMAL, […]

After Joe died I must have some form of grief induced a.d.d. Anyway, I couldn’t read anything longer than a short magazine or newspaper article. A novel? Forget it. So I started subscribing to magazines–usually they had to be a dollar an issue or less. Also Joe had frequent flyer miles that he did not […]

Not too much to say here. Charles and Judy took us to the Gatwick where we were met by Brendan. Caitlan left with him to spend Easter together. A bit of a tearful good-by. We had extra time after we got through security to do a little shopping. Jerome bought some special Scotch and then […]

Well, I was in the pit for a while and I hade to climb out, but now I’m better. It was weird because KK was sick in England, too, and so at first I thought I had gotten her germs over SKYPE, but then I decided it was just sympathy illness. Actually, I probably just […]