How many times recently have you grabbed a piece of paper to jot a note down.  A note meaning, you want to remember a particular thing, without putting any effort into trying to remember. We write down names, telephone numbers, good books, meeting times, good buys and more. When I examine my own behavior […]

The other day I was riding through a neighborhood, and saw a sparkling white van that was parked in a driveway.  The van’s whiteness caught my attention,  and as I got closer I noticed the large clean, crisp, black  lettering on the side… Popcorn Removal.  Being from the North East, I only knew popcorn as something to eat, […]

I do believe it is all of us, and I think winning an award or a prize  started  at a very early age.  There were contests to be entered on the back of cereal boxes, and how about digging deep into a  cracker jack box, to get that  prize.     Then our awards got more difficult;   spelling Bs and […]

The closest thing in Florida to a snow day is clouds, fog and rain. I’ve lived here for quite a few years now, and very very rarely do we have a full day of rain. The last few days we have gotten up to a low lying fog, the clouds have consistently been there and […]

What makes a Birthday remarkable? Could it be the age of a person or the amount of guests at a Birthday party, perhaps their status in life or the location of the birthday celebration.  Well, this week I was part of two such birthdays. There were no parties, one had cake the other will be having a luncheon […]

No I’m not writing about my Father, and I’m not going to any NASCAR races. If you do however, you will see the Go Daddy endorsement on the car of one of the drivers, and no,the driver is not a Daddy being told to Go, because the driver is a she, she is Danica Patrick. […]

I was recently asked why do you write your blog, what is the purpose?  To be honest, right now it is in its’ infancy and I’m not sure in what direction it will go.  I love the Villages, I love to write, I enjoy writing about the past, but the present is really fun with […]

My thirst for knowledge went way overboard this week, and not so sure I should share this,  but I will.  I love the Lifelong Learning College and have attended quite a few classes there, from art to writing, from Kabbalah to self-improvement.  Some I have taken because I want to get better at certain things, some because I want […]

I had my first child, a boy. Times were very different then..every mother looked like Betty Crocker and the babies all looked like the Gerber baby. Whenever you asked someone how their baby was, they would say wonderful, the baby’s fine, couldn’t be better. Everything was beautiful. All families were like Ozzie and Harriet, and this […]

I can’t believe it happened to me.  For the past several summers we have been returning to the lake community we had retired to, and rented a home for a month. (Sean makes it through two to three weeks and then has Village withdrawal and has to get back, and that’s OK)   It has been wonderful, […]