Alaska 2025 – Embarkation Day -3

Here’s the wine rack in the 2019-renovated kitchen of our 1927 home, decorated with an early birthday card my lifelong BFF sent. Her granddaughter picked it out, having never met me, and it has musical notes on it!!! I’m seventeen days from turning 75 years of age. I’ve spent the past nineteen months planning this trip, a terrific adventure for my sons, myself, and our people, as they say on “Grey’s Anatomy.” The boys’ father and I divorced when they were around ages 8 and 6. Now they are ages 52 and 50. We three have not take a “family” … Continue reading

First Family Vacation in Over 30 Years

Another summer, another opportunity to view the exquisite beauty that is everywhere one looks in Alaska. This cruise began with the whim of a twelve-year-old girl who thinks like I do. I refer to her as Miss C, and she’s the beautiful and intelligent daughter of my precious daughter-in-law, Leslie. Miss C has been in my younger son’s life since she was about four years old, and I’m fortunate to be able to visit with her several times each year. I have loved watching this now-almost-15-year-old young woman as she’s developing into the dynamo she’ll be as an adult. On … Continue reading