by Carol | Jul 1, 2021 | My Blog
I didn’t do well. Time stopped for us during the heat wave last week as the oven-like temperatures rose higher and higher every day. Minute by minute in my mind! My husband and I couldn’t really think straight because we had only one thing on our minds — behold my own...
by Carol | Aug 31, 2012 | My Blog
This coming weekend marks the end of summer in my mind and I mourn it every year. Packing away shorts and tee shirts is always a bit agonizing. True, Sept. can be sunny, but there’s always this shift in my brain, “Now I have to get down to business.” The...
by Carol | Aug 3, 2012 | My Blog
I never dreamed of writing about weather. Under ordinary circumstances, endless discussion about the weather is sleep inducing. Basically, it’s what people say when they have nothing to say. But this summer is different. The country is cooking and I’m jumping in with...
by Carol | Jan 1, 2009 | My Blog
If you live in my part of the world, summer vacation is about to begin. Losing track of this fact is easy when you’re beyond those child rearing years. But the absence of yellow buses, and hearing the chatter of children in the middle of the day, takes me back to all...
by Carol | Dec 31, 2007 | My Blog
The transition from summer vacation to the school year is different for those of us without children; changes in our seasons revolve mostly around rotating clothes. Activities will soon start filling the calendar, and thoughts will slowly turn to Halloween costumes,...
by Carol | Dec 31, 2005 | My Blog
Some of you have waited for the end of summer since the beginning, “Yea, the kids are back in school!” Try something different this time. Kick off this new section of the year with a little celebration. As a stay-home-mom, I once toasted the end of this “bored kids...
