Conversion Averted

As a vegetarian, I get a lot of questions about what I eat, how I maintain a nutritious diet and, occasionally (only three I know of in 20 years) someone will decide to become a vegetarian themselves. More often than not, people want to cut out the amount of meat they eat and I’m happy to share [...]

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Lunch at Tiffany’s

So it wasn’t quite like Breakfast at Tiffany’s but I had a very elegant, delicious and informative  lunch at the Hyatt which was hosted by Tiffany’s store.  I sat at a table with 2 navy spouses and an air force spouse. The Navy life intrigues me so I asked lots of questions of those 2 ladies and they were equally interested in the [...]

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A little shakin’ going on

After spending a very tranquil Thanksgiving with FM and FG, I curled up to my book club novel “The Red Tent” at about 9:45 p.m.  FG had just gone to bed and FM was in the living room going through old files. About 5 minutes later, the bed started shaking. At first, it reminded me of [...]

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Flashback Friday ~ Salzburg, Austria 2003

In 2003, the day after a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with the Sims and the Martins, we caught an early morning train from Weiden,Germany to Salzburg, Austria. I almost cancelled because Bennett, our lab, had an eye infection and I didn’t want to leave him. Our neighbor, Stephanie, agreed to take him to the vet first [...]

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Having a gratitude attitude…

I once read an article in Time Magazine when I was a teenager living in Puerto Rico. There was a photo of an impoverished African man who laid on the ground and the caption read something like this: he comes from no where and has no where to go. He lays here waiting.
As I sat on a [...]

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School Spirit Week

Last week was School Spirit week and FG enjoyed dressing crazy all week. Her favorite day was “Wear your PJs” – especially getting to wear slippers to school.
Unfortunately, the school chose this day to present the five art finalists with their certificates and take photos. FG received 5th place in the school-wide art contest. I [...]

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Flashback Friday – Beaune, France 2005

Beaune and the Hotel Le Cep definitely rank as one of the most beautiful places we’ve ever spent Thanksgiving:
 
As we drove towards the Burgundy region in France,  it started to snow and when we got to Beaune, it was blanketed with a fresh dusting of snow ~ it looked magical. We splurged and stayed at the Hotel Le [...]

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Friend for Sport

Most people who know us won’t be surprised we’ve added a new puppy to our family ~ Maya.  She’s been adopted from the local animal shelter (G.A.I.N) and is sweet as can be. We brought her home on Saturday for what FG calls a “sleepover” so we could make sure Sport liked her.  They certainly look good together since Maya [...]

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Memories and Great Sadness

This week brings back very difficult, sad memories from two years ago when FM’s unit lost a lot of good men during the battle of Fallujah. No matter what I’ve been doing this weekend, my thoughts drift back to those awful days in November 2004. My friend, Heidi and her terrible loss 2 years ago has been [...]

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Veteran’s Day 2006

World War I officially ended on June 28, 1919, with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The actual fighting between the Allies and Germany, however, had ended seven months earlier with the armistice, which went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. Armistice Day, as [...]

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