The train ride to Florence was easy. There were no delays, the air conditioning was refreshing, and it actually seemed as if we were really skimming along at 300 km/hr, leaving cars on the autostrade in the dust, which is saying quite a bit. We were able to look out the windows the entire time,…
Tag: Life
Nobody likes orange.
Finally. A new, peaceful theme. I wasn’t truly loving the orange in my last digs, but something odd has happened as a result of that recent having to live with it for as long as I did and survive. When I’m out and about, all things orange catch my eye. And I have been doing…
Teenagers, school, and grey hair.
How do we get to Friday so quickly now when it used to seem as if it was forever hovering in the distance of my pseudo nine-to-five work week? It’s amazing, and I’m left feeling yet again that I need some kind of a drive through where I can order a few more hours each…
The family that views together?
My mother loves watching television. Loves. It. So it’s been a challenge for her since arriving back in Paradise to adjust to our television viewing habits. Um, we don’t exactly have any? She’s got to feel like she’s in TV Hell. We do have shows we enjoy, but from my perspective, it’s more about being…
Sometimes you feel like a dork…sometimes you don’t.
This would be one of those times. You know. Where you realize it seems like you were pandering. Not you. Me. I was pandering. Pandering for attention. But I wasn’t. And now I feel like it seems as if I was even though I’m one to pay attention to myself, so have never really needed…
What’s the point of this, anyway?
It’s funny how things sometimes change, and as much as I can see that beginning to happen — to not want it to happen — it does anyway. There’s nothing I can do about it. Things that once mattered end up in a place we never intended for them to be, and they get lost…