Our February trip to Oaxaca, Mexico has been put on hold. Due to some unforeseen medical expenses and a lighter than usual winter-spring calendar, we opted to cancel our plans to investigate Mexico as an ex-pat retirement location…for now. Instead, we are going to Lancaster, PA where we will be staying in a stranger’s home …
In the lingo of Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families, we use a few different archetypes to represent the voices in our heads. The Loving Parent is, obviously, the person we want to run the show, but for most of us it is the Critical Parent who shows up in our lives saying in …
I’ve turned a corner. After years hoping that I would uncover and feel some of the softer emotions available mostly to women, I am finally beginning to experience them myself. Yes – this lumbering lunk of man clay has begun to cry at romance novels. I came here quite by accident. After enjoying 30 or …
I’ll admit it. My main reasons for working out (strength and cardiovascular training) were more about other people than me. I wanted to look good, to receive admiring glances from the opposite sex and, never, ever be embarrassed to wear a bathing suit at the beach. I also wanted to eat what I wanted in …
If I could go back and be a kid, again, there’s one thing that I would change. I’d look at my fears and try to expand my comfort zone beyond my own narrow, limited beliefs. Literally and figuratively, I would take more swings and learn to hit the ball better as a result. Yeah. If …
SUNDAY It’s 10:30pm. Tomorrow morning, our youngest daughter leaves bright and early for Montana. In the afternoon, Beth and I fly back to New York. And Helen will resume life here in St. Petersburg, Florida. In my opinion, today was a magical end to a week without any difficult family drama. Thanks be to God. …
Writing a blog post about my family is tricky. One of our daughters strongly objects to any and all online mentions (unless I don’t mention her name) and both of them are highly sensitive to having too-personal details about their lives broadcasted. I do not always like it but I am trying to comply because …
We are spending Christmas week with our two daughters. “The weather’s gonna be delightful without cold, without rain, without snow!”
When we started this blog and named it, we had a few thoughts in mind. First, we wanted to document the transition from home ownership to traveling vagabonds. Second, we wanted to openly discuss the emotional ups and downs of change and transformation. I have thoroughly enjoyed fulfilling both goals and my intention is to …
I learned a good lesson last night about focusing on one thing. Not for the first time, I was talking with a friend on the phone while fiddling around with my computer. Generally, I don’t do this but every now and then my focus becomes divided. Last night it came crashing down on me. Prior …