Fare Thee Mel

Happy New Year.  This is going to be a quick post about how we spent our New Year's Day. My husband and I started off 2020 with a race. ...

That song came on my iPod when I was running one day last week. That song is in one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies.  I...

I have been neglectful of ye olde blog here. I am also in a reading slump.  The last book I started was the weekend of October 19th.  We wen...

Last Saturday night I went to my 40th high school reunion. This was a big deal for me because I have never been to any previous reunions. My...

Every September our YMCA holds a Member Appreciation Picnic barbecue in their pavilion. A f ew weeks ago a notice was up that the picnic was...

At the beginning of August I decided to set a goal of cleaning out, dumping and getting rid of something every day. I have mentioned before ...

Before I continue my Acadia National Park  travel recap, I thought I would write about my real life weekend.  It's not all hiking and un...

Although today is a Saturday it is the one month anniversary of the date I started my new job . I have to admit that I struggled a little th...

Last weekend, we met up with my sister and her boyfriend in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.  Stockbridge is the hometown of artist Normal Rockwe...

Are you familiar with the Duggar family?  If you hate them, please feel free to stop reading now. They used to have a TV show on the TLC net...

Wow my post yesterday was a big giant waaah about the old job. I guess I needed to get it off my chest before I could really move on. Like d...

My coworker and I went to see Joyce Meyer. If you’re not familiar with Joyce, she is an American Charismatic Christian author and speaker (a...

On Saturday we had a small lunchtime party for my older son who is getting his PhD degree. I am so proud of how hard he worked the past six ...

On  May 1st , I wrote about my kindness goal and how one of my favorite bloggers was bashed for styling an outfit from Walmart. First off,...

It’s time to turn another page on the calendar. There is so much potential in a new month. I am setting a goal for myself for May. I am go...

I realized I never hit Publish on this post from the end of March. Better late than never! Taxes I’m relieved that we finally got that do...

1st because Saturday was the first running of the Helderberg to Hudson Half-Marathon. My husband ran and I volunteered at one of the water s...

Monday’s post is supposed to be a highlight of the prior week and a summary of my workouts. Right now there are people I know (some very clo...

The last four fiction books I started were all duds. I won’t keep reading anything I don’t like.  Fortunately, I’ve had better luck with my ...

March came in like a lamb (I was in Florida) and is going out like a lion. My husband and I went on our first hike of 2019 yesterday. We w...