I grew up in a last-minute family. Because church didn’t start until 11 am, my mother rarely left the house before 10:50 am, even when she was the choir director, because “we live so close–it just takes a minute to get there.” When friends and relatives were invited over for dinner or for a weekend [...]
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It’s never too late for holiday gifts
Posted in Friends and family, Knitting, Life reflections, Sock knitting on March 22, 2010 | 17 Comments »
What a day and so little sock knitting to show for it….
Posted in Friends and family, Life reflections, Sock knitting on March 9, 2010 | 13 Comments »
This post is by necessity short–I’m even too tired to knit and that’s really tired! I finally got to see the Today Show segment on aarp.org and the articles posted there. I smiled as I read about teaching my daughter to knit. She loves knitting, too, and here I once thought it might skip a [...]
“Your Life Calling”
Posted in Life reflections, Reinvention on March 8, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Life has been almost too much lately–but fun! In late January, I was invited to be interviewed for an AARP television project. The caller was looking for people who had made significant mid-life changes and reinvented themselves after age 50. And yes, it was true; I had done this 10 years before when I left [...]