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  • A Best Friend

    Gaile and I have been friends for over 40 years. She just got her Medicare card and I am in hot pursuit of mine…only one more year. We met up today for lunch and a ramble around St. Paul, MN. We had not seen one another for almost two years. Covid and life… It was…

  • What now?

    I haven’t posted since late October and am still trying to wrap my mind around Covid-19 as we shelter, and work, at home. Our thoughts are with our friends and furriends around the world. Today we offer a sleepy nod from Dylan the Tabby…

  • Scanning The Past No. 2: Remembering Headington

    Update! I have reconnected with Kathryn by email! Over 50 years later it is my hope that we will get to know one another again. 🌞 The Fall of 1969 my family moved to Kirtlington, Oxfordshire, England for a year. My Dad began a sabbatical and I was immersed in the life of an English…

  • In Our Thoughts

    Hello WordPress friends! We miss you and seem to allow daily living to get in the way of seeing what you are all doing. We wish you all a good week to come… Dylan the Tabby on Sunday

  • Take Me Out To The Ball Game

    The Twins lost to Cleveland but fun was had by all… A Minnesota twist on the Bloody Mary?! …it’s only the THIRD inning??!! Kathleen and me Our dear friends Jane and Tom

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Yellow!

    Holiday Spirit AND YELLOW 🙂

  • Wordless Wednesday #2

    Helping Halle with the The Remembering with Dignity Project (Christine & Lisa). photo by Halle  

  • Trunk or Treat!

    Totino Grace High School students and faculty held their annual Halloween event, Trunk or Treat, on October 26th. The students showed up mid-day on Saturday to decorate the trunks of cars and trucks in a variety of themes. From classic golf, pumpkin painting, mini-bowling, shooting hoops, to the ‘cast’ from Despicable Me and Star Trek,…

  • Senior pictures

    I agreed to take senior pictures for a friend’s grandson…I think his mom was a little worried about my interest in the non-traditional, but we did lots of the usual poses, as well- (and it was for free :))

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside (literal interp.?)

    “Inside”…indoors, ‘what’s inside the box?’, ‘what’s inside the little girl with blue fingernail polish’s head’, OR- (she’s thinking) ‘What’s inside that lady’s head and why is she on the floor with us?’ Pre-photo session for a good friend’s 70th birthday party. Her grandchildren are amazing!