picking up where I left off

Um, okay. So I think it’s been established that I suck at keeping up here. Thank you for coming back. My last post was at the beginning of the year, and now it’s already March. Sigh. Really so much has transpired in these fledgling days of 2024, mostly Dixon-related. But first let’s go back, shall…

Six years gone

Here’s the photo and post I put on both Facebook and Instagram today: In December 2014, to celebrate my parents’ upcoming 50th wedding anniversary, my sister and I bought a photo package. A photographer came to our house and took a bunch of photos of the family, both posed and candid. This photo was taken…

measures of life

The past few weeks or so has got me thinking about what makes a life. It’s multi-faceted. There’s health, love, financial security, food, clean water. There’s also the things you surround yourself with. There’s things you do that you enjoy. There’s your memories, your interior mind. For some, it’s their art, whatever form it takes….

it begins

Or rather, it continues. The wheels put in motion with my aunt’s death in September are getting ready to hit the road, quite literally, this weekend. I’m working an adjusted schedule this week so I can go up to northern California to drive my aunt to her new home in an assisted living facility in…

puzzling

Mom and I finished the puzzle that we started on Thanksgiving. I think we both enjoyed putting it together. Is this the start of a new little hobby?

starting to slip a little

I’ve missed a couple days of posting. I will try to make them up, but we’ll see. I’ve got some busy days coming up in the next few weeks and some of them I won’t have internet access. More on that later. But right now, let’s get caught up. Wednesday I worked as usual and…

review of Beautiful – the Carole King musical

I went to see this musical at my local theatre. I learned after the show that the lead, Sara Sheperd, had played the same role on Broadway for five years. She was, as you would imagine, excellent in the role. Also a Broadway alum for her role was the other female lead, Sara King, who…

52 and a day

The big goal today was to get the gift from my mom which was a new iPhone. We went to Los Cerritos Apple Store & I’m now the recipient of a shiny new phone. The amazing (to me) thing is they could basically mirror my old phone so everything works just as it did on…

52

The morning was wet and breezy so I didn’t get on the trail. I went to get coffee and breakfast, and I came back home and watched more of “Madam Secretary.” I tend to stick to something once I get started, lol. Later in the afternoon, Mom and I went to Pour Co. in Fullerton…

the day before 52

I’m not entirely sure I can parse why I get so crabby as my birthday approaches. This year, maybe I can assign some of the anxiety to the logistics that my cousins and I are attempting to execute on behalf of our aunt. But other years have been similar. It’s that dichotomy of wanting to…