Vicariously enjoying the balloons on my way to the airport coming home... I did it, finally. I signed up to take a hot air balloon ride a few weeks ago while in AZ. I'd wanted to do this the last couple of years, but health stuff got in the way. Two years ago a hip …
Tag: Blogging from A to Z in April
Life at 82: A is for Aging
Participating in the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge Write along with me! What does aging mean to you? In general, aging means the process of getting older. Duh! In this Blogging from A to Z April Challenge, I will be writing about my own life at 82. Thinking about aging, I’ve complained a …
April Blogging from A to Z Theme Reveal, 2024
As you read a day or two ago, I've decided to do the A to Z Challenge again. I do it for fun, not necessarily to educate as has been my life's work! If you feel smarter after reading my posts, so be it! If you can nod in agreement or get a chuckle, that …
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Z is for Zany
The final entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge At my fiftieth high school reunion some years ago, a grade school classmate, whom I hadn't seen in years, told me she remembered me as being zany. I smiled and hoped it was a compliment, because I didn't know what the word …
Y is for Yellow
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge. A true story I wrote about myself in the early 2000s. I was practicing writing in third person; Anne was me at an earlier age. Yellow worked itself into Anne’s life in an odd sort of way. She wasn’t really aware of the …
X is for Xerox
An Entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge First, to make copies, it was carbon paper between onion skin paper on my old upright Royal typewriter. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Then it was standing by a mimeograph machine and turning the roller round and round. Then it was standing by …
W is for Westminster
An entry for the Blogging A to Z in April challenge In addition to my daughter and her family, two communities saved my life when we moved after fifty years in Chicago, a city of about 3 million, to the much smaller Sioux Falls, a town of under 300,000. Those two are OLLI--Osher Life Learning …
V is for Victory
An entry for the Blogging from A to Z in April challenge. The first word that came to mind with the letter V was victory. And with victory the words and tune of the song V is for Victory cascaded from my memory. I remember learning this song in Christian School, probably in the lower …
U is for Ubiquitous
An Entry in the Blogging from A to Z in April Challenge Once you know the meaning of ubiquitous, it will become a favorite word. In the late 80s, I accompanied one of my older sisters on her road trip from Chicago to Seattle to assume a dean's position at a university. She lived in …
Write Along with Me 