When Friendship Stops Happening on Its Own Part One
Part One: The Friendships We Didn’t Expect What moving, retirement and an unexpected invitation taught us about making new friends…
lifeafterthealarmclock
When Tuesday and Saturday are Interchangeable
When Tuesday and Saturday Become Interchangeable When you no longer have to build your life around work, children, schedules, or…
A Retirement Update from the Laundry Room: Home Is Where We Open the Suitcases
See Part Two: Our Calendar Has Other Plans for the second part of this post. Part One When October 3,…
The Family Tapestry We Are Weaving
Five children came for four days in August. Michael and I are still recovering, but I would do it again…
It’s Pronounced O-bin (not O-ban)
This post about Oban is an abbreviated version of the original article found on the Travel & Life Rhythms page.…
The Royal Scotsman
The Royal Scotsman The Flying Scotsman was a famous steam locomotive and passenger train service that ran between Edinburgh and…
Railfanning the Big Boy
On June 2, 2026, I drove to DeKalb, Illinois to railfan Union Pacific’s Big Boy locomotive roll through town on…
What a Glass of Barolo Taught Us
The hills stretched out in ordered rows, each line set with a care that felt almost too precise to be…
Filling Boxes and Filling Rooms
I did not choose retirement the way Michael did. He walked out of a forty year career at the top…