I face a new decade. I face a new series of ages in which I start with a 6 in the tens’ place. When I think about the “oughts” I realized that between the year 2000 and now: ***I fell in love for the first time since Wayne died. ***I got married. ***I became a […]

Caitlan says she thinks her interview went well. It lasted from 11 until almost 5. Now we’ll see if call back. If they are smart, they will.

Please keep Caitlan in your prayers today as she has an important interview. May God’s will be done either way.

I am the customer who has won “story of the day,” not once, but twice at Miller’s Tire and Auto! The first time was last summer when I took the truck in to have the oil changed, and the mechanic came out with a six foot snake skin from under the hood. I had moved […]

Tomorrow’s the birthday of poet and novelist Louise Erdrich born in Little Falls,Minnesota (1954). She’s best known for her series of four books that follow three generations of Chippewa Indians in North Dakota during the twentieth century. She grew up on the plains of North Dakota. Her father was of German descent and her mother […]

OK–this is nonsense. I have no idea what I’m doing! Are 56-year-olds even allowed to take new jobs?

I accepted a position with Marion County Public Schools as an itinerant library/media specialist in Calvary and Lebanon Elementary Schools today. I have my first inservice day tomorrow. Thanks to Jerome and Jenny Lewis for this job.

Every year we go to the park for half a day and play games. The 8th grade mans a station for each game and the groups circulate. Today a kid in the 7th grade brough paint balls and was secretly passing them out–the boys’ bathroom got especially hard hit. We haven’t had this kind of […]