Tuesday’s Thoughts: Advice for a Long and Happy Marriage (8/11/15)
Running into neighbors at a local restaurant last week, I mentioned that my husband and I were celebrating our 38th wedding anniversary. A young couple sitting at the next table overheard the...
View ArticleFriday’s Fresh Five! (8/14/15)
Resembling a drunk, my granddaughter Charlotte teeters back and forth on unsteady legs as she walks towards me. Deciding to carry the largest and heaviest toy in the room, she makes frequent balance...
View ArticlePeach-Oatmeal Cookies
Luscious sweet summer peaches won’t be around forever, so try to serve them in as many ways as possible. For me, that means peach cookies! To assuage my guilt for craving cookies, I decided to try...
View ArticleFriday’s Fresh Five! (8/21/15)
Always looking for ways to improve myself, I’m attending a workshop today. Check back next Tuesday for a new What About This? post. In the meantime, I leave you with this thought: “The significance of...
View ArticleFriday’s Fresh Five! (8/28/15)
Playfully, I stick a hair curler in my granddaughter’s hair. Charlotte innocently strikes a quick girly-girl pose for me and then pulls the curler out of her hair and goes about her busy job of...
View ArticleHomemade Bubble Solution and Bubble Wands
Yipee! Charlotte’s coming over and we’re going to have some bubble fun. I’ve got everything all set: homemade bubble solution that creates super-duper large bubbles, homemade bubble-making devices,...
View ArticleFriday’s Fresh Five! (9/4/15)
Succulents don’t suck. They just suffer from a lack of appreciation. However, all that is changing. With drought conditions existing in the United States, versatile succulents are rising in popularity....
View ArticleOut Conquering the World
“Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.” Marilyn Monroe Small shoes sit by my back door waiting for their next adventure. Sorry, no time to write to a blog post today, Charlotte...
View ArticleFriday’s Fresh Five! (9/11/15)
Butterfly bushes hang limp in the breeze. Dead grass crunches when walked upon. It’s obvious that the drought conditions in California have wreaked havoc in my yard. The only things flourishing in it...
View ArticleIt’s The End, or Is It?
Melissa Babasin Photography Like a river, life carries me around bends and curves and to inevitable forks of decision. At the six-year anniversary of What About This?, I find myself at one of those...
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