Retired & Roaming
Retired & Roaming
Are We Slowing Down Because We’re Aging? It’s Thursday evening and King and I are back in the trailer early this evening. Our grandsons had baseball practice, and we opted to head home rather than sit in a drizzle and watch. It…
It’s 4 a.m. and I’m not sleeping. I was lying in bed thinking about what I was going to write and decided there really was no need to wait until the sun came up to begin. If I get tired…
Navigating Lake Jennings Campground Rules It’s the third day of the new year as I write this. I’m not certain it has any significance other than three days ago it was the first day of January 2025. I have to wonder when, in the…
This is my last missive for 2024. My how time flies. Why the Holiday Season Feels Like a Blur For me, the holiday season is over. Some contend the season ends with the New Year, but I don’t do New Year’s Eve…
I think I’m pretty tired. A Decade Ago: Life as a Nightshift Paginator I realized this when I looked at some old Facebook posts and realized just 10 short years ago, I was working as a newspaper page layout/copy editor…
Today was one of those days when our daughter definitely needed a few extra hands. One child had jiu jitsu classes and the other had riding lessons – at the overlapping times. Normally their other grandmother is available to help…
Retirement Reflections: Fridays in California As I’m writing this, it is Friday night. Ahhhhh, Friday. Before retirement, it meant a whole lot of different things than it does now. Fridays During Our Working Days Back in the days of employment, it…
Life in the Not-So-Fast Lane Navigating Updates in Technology as We Age I guess I’m getting to be “that age. “Today I opened my laptop and accessed my mailbox. Yahoo mail has been updated. I didn’t like it. Not. One.…
Retirement Adventures Yesterday, our son, the one who designed and maintains our website, surprised me with a new (to me) laptop. It’s been a few years since I had to configure a new computer (to me, all computers, whether they…
When I’m working at the campground store, I often get asked about what it’s like full time living in a travel trailer. I often hear, “That’s my dream. It’s what I want to do someday,” or “It would be fun, but I can’t…