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Back to Oxford for the first time
I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree 38 years ago from Oxford… Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, that is. So it has been with great curiosity that I have come to the original Oxford. It is so named because oxen were used to pull loads across a low point of the Thames and ‘ford’…
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Darwin – now
My posts have been pretty wordy this week, so I’ll give you a break by sharing some photos of our four days in Darwin. Writing and taking photos to share with you causes me to look at things with somewhat altered perspective, which I really enjoy. I hope you will too. (I have prepared this…
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How the Woman got her Man – The Prequel/Pt 2
I suppose we are lucky when we are young that we understand so little about what can go wrong in life, and in relationships. Some months after Don’s visit to Denver it became clear to me that I needed to leave the job I had moved to Denver to take. (It was nothing to do…
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How the Woman Got Her Man (and a new country in the process…)
Subtitle: Moving to Australia: The Prequel/part 1 As I write this during a brief visit to Darwin, it is nearly incomprehensible how I came to live here thirty years ago. Perhaps if I recount the story to you, it will seem more real… Don and I grew up in the same little town in southern…
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Moving to Australia-Darwin Poison
I am writing this in Darwin, where it all began for me — my life in Australia, that is. Thirty years ago Darwin was as close to frontier living as I was game for. It had some considerable challenges for this thirty year old Ohio transplant. When I first came here, at the end of…
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Super Moon, or Not.
As most of you know, I usually go for a morning walk. But my knee hurts. And my hips hurt. And the temp outside is 2 C. I’ve heard that 60 is the new 40 but I’m not sure my body has gotten the message. There was supposed to be a ‘super’ moon setting this…
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Breast MRI
About this time last year I posted my experience with my first breast MRI (see ‘Happy Dancing‘ in Archives or click on the link). Whenever I learn something new I like to share it so here we go with this year’s experience. I am not at all a fan of recreational drugs, but the well…
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Munch-able Muesli, Great Granola
One of the most consistent and enjoyable habits of my entire life has been sharing recipes. I copied the first recipe from my childhood girlfriend at about the age of 9. It was for ‘Snickerdoodle’ cookies. I still have the handwritten recipe in my file. I also have, in a small frame, my Grandmother’s handwritten…
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Something or nothing?
For some reason I seem to think it is part of my mission in life to share small insights with you. Dear readers, I hope you will not think it too self indulgent of me to share the following… Some days our psyches need to do some catching up, a bit like a computer that…
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Bird Camps
It seems there are two camps when it comes to birds. There is the ‘love birds’ camp and the ‘hate birds’ camp and only a few ambivalent stragglers in between. It never occurred to me that anyone could dislike birds until I noticed our daughter’s extreme discomfort around them. I could hardly believe it, as…
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