Okay. I prefer this picture not be spread all over the Internet – for obvious reasons. In this photo, I’m looking inside the cockpit of the aerobatics airplane, while Patrick, unbeknownst to me, is being a “bad boy” and acting like he’s posing with my butt cheek. Lovely. Of course, it was one of those situations that, […]

  I sat down to write about how good I’ve been feeling this past week. How I feel like I’m sailing to the top of my challenges, that things are getting easier. Even when I go into a grocery store, or pass someone on the way into the bank – they smile at me. Really […]

              Last night, I had a strange dream. First of all, I, we (whoever that was, and Patrick was there also), was in a stadium that was like another planet. And we, I, was trying to avoid getting killed by the polar bears that were stalking my pets, and me. […]

It’s Oscar time again, and I’m thinking about my recent trip to Greece and my discovery of who won the first  Oscar for best actor. Luckily, I was guided by the wonderful, and effervescent Betsy Filiotis on my trips to the ancient ruins, a fantastically well educated volunteer at the Greek Archaeology Society. She made everything I […]

My mother is moving into a Seniors Living apartment this month, into a space that is less than one-third the size of what she has now. This means she’s had to tackle the difficult process of whittling down the lifetime of “stuff” she has accumulated. And as I helped her in her last push of packing, […]

I know I’m feeling better when I start to believe that cleaning out my closet will actually change my life. Or, if I get my office straightened and organized – I will then be in the position to rule the world. But when I’m feeling down, I have the over-powering, pervasive feeling that none of […]

I’d love to share a song with you that I’ve been saving for today – Valentine’s Day. When this song was first sent to me, it was hard for me to listen to it; in fact, it took me almost seven months before I could. It was written on the night of my husband, Patrick’s, […]

I don’t know about me, but my two widow friends looked hot in their fire suits. And that Saturday, Little Red came back into the pit after standing outside for awhile, and I saw that she was teetering on the edge of some emotion. “There was a driver out there. A really good-looking driver,” she […]

                                Daytona’s Grand Am Rolex 24. A place where the competitors pit themselves somewhere between metal, strategy, and pavement, pushing the outside of the envelope of their, and their car’s performance for twenty-four hours straight. My two widow friends, and […]

Pushing the edge of the envelope… I remember hearing that phrase and wondering, what does that mean? It was years later when I started to fly that I finally learned – in aviation, you have performance graphs, which cover the many facets of your aircraft’s capabilities – maximum speed, maximum altitude, maximum “G” loading, maximum payload […]