I’ve had a variety of cameras over the years. In 1972, the folding Polaroid started spitting out color photos. I remember the thrill of instant satisfaction (which almost seems foreign today when everything seems instant) watching the picture emerge within a few minutes after it shot out the front of the camera. I never got […]
Let’s start with a recipe. This has been my formula for holiday shopping. Start with an ultra-organized brain, mix in a high level of money awareness (aka: fear of debt), then add a dash of lack-of-love for shopping. Then, shake vigorously. And serve. The name of this recipe? Half-a-Humbug or, maybe, the Mint-Colored Grinch. I […]
Sometimes I’m embarrassed and sometimes I’m proud of how organized I am. I don’t have a memory of purchasing the pink cooler. But the dated receipt gives me the information I need to piece the story together. I moved to Powell, Wyoming, after I graduated NYU in 1988. From a population of 8 million to 4,000. […]
Just before I graduated high school, I got a notice from the main office that a local furniture store had a gift for the female graduates in the Class of 1984. Turns out, this furniture store gave this graduation gift to graduating girls for a long time before me and would continue to do so […]
I got the opportunity to go to Barrow for a work-related training in early April 1997. It was the time of year when they were closing in on the period when the sun wouldn’t set for 82 days. By then it was light for 14 hours a day with dusk lasting for hours. It was a […]
Look out Shirley Valentine, my hero, Debbie LaFleiche is downsizing her home to supersize her life. I am on a quest for a life filled with adventure, creativity, fun, freedom and water as deep as forever. Come along for the ride. Join the journey. I wrote that a month ago at the end of the inaugural […]