I never sat down today! After coffee, breakfast and pet care, I ran off to a mid-day pickleball open play session I had committed to, then dashed back home and worked for several hours (at my stand-up

Have I mentioned how much I love working part time? It’s so great being partially retired. There are a few days out of the “work week” when I don’t have to log in at all if I don’t want to. Today was one

I’ve found the sport I will play until I drop dead! I really really love pickleball. I’ve made the most amazing friends, and am now playing four days a week. I love how it keeps me moving, active, agile

My husband and I got out for a walk at dusk, and ended up going for a much longer walk than either of us had planned. But it was lovely. It was nearly dark by the time we got home, and we still hadn’t

Today was a great day for steps! My daughter, granddaughter and I did a big Costco run because I was running out of everything and hadn’t stocked up on stuff for a while, I couldn’t believe how busy the

It is truly silly how often I earn a whole BUNCH of steps and I’m just too tired to post about it at the end of the day. In fact, I ritually start a post and then fall asleep while writing it. That’s life

I attended a writers’ conference this weekend at a beautiful remote resort in northern Minnesota called Jack Pines. I always love this event. The writing group that hosts it publishes an anthology each

As I mentioned in this post I traveled for a few days in southern Oregon, and managed to fit in some walking and posting while on vacation. What a wonderful thing it is to walk around an unfamiliar town,

I’m traveling and visiting relatives for a few days on the southern coast of Oregon. My brother owns a nice property along a river front and my siblings and I all try to gather together here once a year.

I took a lovely walk around a pond in Minneapolis. We have ponds and lakes everywhere you look here. It was a bright late-summer day and the temperature was mild. I love days like that when there are big

I love walking at the marina when there are beautiful clouds and a pretty sunset. I love how the boats and their masts create dramatic reflections. I actually ran from my car to the water in this instance

I returned to my favorite local walking park at dusk today. It was so gorgeous with all the cattails and late summer flowers. This is my favorite place to go in any weather, at any time of year. That is

I have almost no pictures to show for my 16000 steps today. But I sure I was busy. I worked for several hours, walked the dog a few times, watered the garden, went to play pickleball for a few hours, then

Somehow created multiple versions of the same post by accident.

Somehow created multiple versions of the same post by accident.

It is just past the peak of summer, yet it’s a wonderful time for wildflowers and butterflies. On this particular walk, I strolled through my favorite nature park, which is about 2 miles from my home.

Wow, I miss posting on Hive. I was looking through some of my old posts and discovered some treasures. It was like reading entries in an old journal, only better, because I wrote them for others to read.

Some days are just so full of activity that it makes your head spin. Like a day when you devote half of the day to attending a funeral, and another half a day doing various physical activities to recover

At last, I’m trying to get back to posting after many weeks of being a slacker! It was a great day for exercise today, as I helped my husband plow and shovel about 10 inches of fresh snow off the driveway

These are some crazy days, right? The dramatic things happening here in Minneapolis have been augmented by the Super Bowl, the Winter Olympics (and Lindsey Vonn’s tragic crash), to make it a very newsy