The Pink Wall

We’ve been gradually adding to our vacation photos – the focal point of the biggest wall in our great room.  As we added one or two photos at a time, the grouping took on a decidedly weird look.  I ended up taking down all of the photos recently, in order to put up some little vintage [...]

Vacation in NYC

This was my fourth trip to New York (lucky me!).  This time I was there with Dean and Martha.  Dean was busy much of the time at a conference but was able to join in on some of our fun.  We tried to do some things we hadn’t done before.  Martha and I have seen [...]

Reprieve from Winter

Even though it’s one of the most mild winters we’ve ever experienced, it was still nice to go south for a few days, dig out the summer clothes and soak up a little vitamin D.  In February we went on a cruise with our son, my husband’s sister and husband, and my father-in-law, who was [...]

Impromptu Trip to NYC

My 13-year-old, Martha, has “just a bit” of an obsession with Darren Criss from Glee.  He was performing for a few weeks this January in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” on Broadway.  She talked constantly about this for the last couple of months and was hoping I could somehow obtain a playbill [...]

Designer Coke

This was another inexpensive treasure I found in Paris – metal designer diet Coke bottles!  I spotted them from afar and made a beeline!  Not being too up on fashion, I wasn’t sure who “Karl Lagerfeld” was, but my fashion-savvy sister-in-law Brenda quickly clued me in.  Once she described him, I realized who he was [...]