Senator Elizabeth Warren was impressive tonight, too. I'm trying not to be political (as I've said before), but these two women have touched me. I loved her story about Francis Perkins ( Read more... )

First off, our niece, Candy (Sue's daughter -- they live together) just lost her dear friend Sharla. They've been friends forever (a long time, like our friendship with Mitch). Sharla was only 50 (our friend Mitch was 55). I was so convinced Sharla would pull through. It's heartbreaking ( Read more... )

Marilyn is having an extremely busy work-week already (two days in). Lots of meetings. She didn't get home until close to 8:00 last night ( Read more... )

It's 2:00 a.m ( Read more... )

I had a FRUSTRATING day from the perspective of my medical concerns. I spent ages on the phone this morning! Back and forth about getting my referral to the specialist and then back and forth about my insulin pen. Thankfully the pharmacist mentioned I had a covered prescription for the pen, but they had neglected to send a prescription for the ( Read more... )

Marilyn and I just watched a show on HBO about Rolling Stone -- which ended with the death of John Lennon. Which of course made us both start weeping and weeping. I can't even type about it right now. Just too brutal ( Read more... )

First off, this was a RED LETTER day. The first time since we've lived in this house (!!!) that I turned on the furnace in September! Usually I try to wait until NOVEMBER to turn it on. But I've done it before in October when it got chilly. But SEPTEMBER??? No way ( Read more... )

I've just been sitting at my computer trying to reason out FTP access to the festival website. It used to be SIMPLE with the old website, but is anything but since we moved to the 'new' one. It's pretty ridiculous to keep calling it 'new,' considering we migrated there in 2014. But all things being relative ( Read more... )

Cousin Linda is 62 today! Marilyn and I hope to get together with her and at least have coffee to celebrate... Time flies! Seriously, it's easy to remember when we were all teens. Hahaha ( Read more... )

Hard to believe I haven't blogged since Wednesday! I've just been really, really TIRED each night since then. By the way, tonight is the same (I'm yawning as I type this)...

Thursday, July 27I worked on Thursday. Marilyn and I got in to the office before 9:00, as we had a meeting at Starbucks with Rich at 9:00 a.m ( Read more... )