I am a planner. I love to plan. When I am making plans for something (such as now with the rose garden), I am completely single-minded. I can’t think or talk about anything else. I know that it drives my family crazy. On this project, […]

2016 is well underway and I have yet to post about my New Year’s Resolutions. Don’t think that I had forgotten – I always make New Year’s Resolutions! Resolutions are the reason that New Year’s is one of my favorite holidays, if not my favorite. […]

2015 was a frustrating year for us in many ways. Steve was inundated with school work, while I spent most of the year plagued with injuries and illnesses, and so exhausted from work that I had no energy for anything else. I can’t say that […]

This post was originally published January 19, 2015. This weekend, we went visit my parents in East Tennessee. My dad retired from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and they live just outside the Oak Ridge city limits. Now, as you may recall from previous posts, Oak […]

This post was originally published January 9, 2015. The new year is just over a week old, and I return to work on Monday. I have been on vacation since January 1. I like to take time off the first week of the new year, […]

This post was originally published December 31, 2014. As we count down the final hours of 2014, some will be happy to see the old year end. For me and for my family, however, 2014 was a very good year. So many positive things happened […]