Starting back in 2005, chering, operasnook, and I try to get together at least once a year. I live in Philadelphia, chering lives in Boise, Idaho, and operasnook lives in Coconut Creek, Florida. Strangely enough, for the last several years chering and I have agreed that when we get together in the winter, we are happy to travel to Coconut Creek. operasnook says she is happy to host our get-together ( Read more... )

On Sunday, two days ago, I wrote a "poor me" post HERE. Getting it all out there helped, even before I got all your encouraging comments...which helped even more...including bigj52's story of her mishpocka who fell and fractured her elbow. The poor woman is in constant pain and can do nothing for herself. She can't even get into a car without assistance ( Read more... )

Samantha's father (who is also my middle son), Alan, and his girlfriend, Olga, spent the two weeks ending 26 May 2017 in Olga's timeshares just outside of Tampa, Florida. (On my icon, we were at Indian Springs, on the coast right in from the F on Florida.) Samantha was supposed to join them for the second week but bowed out when she started a new ( Read more... )

Samantha's father (and my middle son), Alan, and his girlfriend, Olga, spent the two weeks ending 26 May 2017 in Olga's timeshares just outside of Tampa, Florida. They left Vineland, NJ, on Thursday night, May 11, and drove down in Olga's zippy little BMW convertible.

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After four days in Key West with Karen and Bruce, I flew to Ft. Lauderdale for six days at the tosca15 resort:


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Sometime In the 70s, my husband and I invested in a platform bed which meant that, since there was no 'under' to this low-slung bed, we couldn't augment our storage with under-the-bed boxes. Before that, we had so much storage in relation to our meager possessions that we never considered using the space under the bed to store anything but dust ( Read more... )