To move or not to move, that is the question. Moving to our retirement home before we actually retire has become a real possibility. Things have certainly changed in the last year. We went from 2 stable incomes to one of us retiring from a long utility construction career and one of us loosing a 32 year job with no warning. All this brought us scrambling as to what...
Never mind that I have had an epic fail in the daily blog post challenge, it seems I have lost my public writing voice this past week. The combination of this past weeks events and still struggling a bit with my new job has left me mentally drained. All I can do is journal my personal thoughts. Words that I will not share with anyone. As people took to social media...
Paris and shopping go together and that is just a plain fact. I first fell in love with Paris many years ago simply because I loved fashion and Paris is the fashion capitol of the world. That was my first reason for wanting to visit this city. Seeing all those stylish French women in pictures in magazines and on TV made me long to be them. If only someday I...
No, there’s nothing unscrupulous about that title. Anyone who has been to Paris and went to visit Sacre Coure and Montmartre know about the artists that wander around Place Du Tetre very willing to do your sketch for half price. These are the charming men who will do your sketch in about 15 minutes while they flirt and flatter the ladies into believing that...
I’m having a behavioral issue. I can’t remember the last time that I was stuck and was having a hard time trying to stick with a book. The last 2 books I have tried to read, I just could not finish. Very strange behavior indeed! Maybe it has something to do with not feeling very settled myself. Maybe it’s feeling a measure of guilt for reading...