Why should you write a blog post? Why does anyone write anything? We write to convey a message, to enlighten, to make someone’s day, to educate, to motivate, to help, to be a friend… Any or all of these would be a good enough reason to share your story here. The post only needs to …
Cocktails on a Wednesday? Why? Because we can. We are Empty Nesters. When the kids were in school and we were driving willy nilly everywhere, we wouldn’t have dreamed (or maybe we did) of having cocktails on a Wednesday. Now that the house is empty and the kids are away, we can do as we …
If I really had to stop and think about it, life here at home “in the Empty Nest” is very different from when two busy kids were living here. Some of the changes are permanent and some of them just come and go. When the kids lived here we motored along at a fairly normal …
“There’s no cryin’ in baseball” – Tom Hanks’ character in A League of Their Own. Here we were, Empty Nesters, with a young puppy standing on the fields where our son had played baseball until high school. I was moved by the realization that we were now the spectators. I saw my devoted baseball husband standing …
Are you currently a member of a book club? Chances are most of you understand what a book club does and perhaps have been a member of one or two over the years. Recently, I was invited to my friend Barbara’s book club as a guest. Barbara came up with a creative idea and was …
It seemed appropriate to write about Seattle today,since the whole world watched them win the Super Bowl. SPOILER ALERT: THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT FOOTBALL 🙂 SO… if you are still interested in reading about Seattle, this is an empty nester story: Our daughter went to college at the University of Washington in Seattle and …
This post is part of the Happy Wives Club Blog Tour which I am delighted to be a part of along with hundreds of inspiring bloggers. To learn more and join us, CLICK HERE! Recently I discovered a special website called The Happy Wives Club. I loved the positive message Fawn Weaver is sending out to …
The experiences of life are what matter most, don’t you agree? A spectacular (almost 3 hours) with The Eagles. The Eagles concert las night at the Los Angeles Forum was perfection. Our wish to be carried back in time was granted and those memories of listening to them as kids came to the surface so easily! The …
Music for Empty Nesters: The Eagles Hotel California Tour- At the risk of totally aging myself…my very first concert as a teenager (age 15) was The Eagles Hotel California Tour at The Forum in Inglewood, CA. Tomorrow, I will visit the same venue for the same concert tour 38 years later! Kate Atkinson of Entertainment …
A New Year’s Resolution: Call more, text less… What do you think? I am not one for New Year’s Resolutions per se…but I do believe we should build upon what we have accomplished the year before. Oops! I take it back – my one resolution is that I will call more and text less. I …
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