When we’re on a long vacation, we try to build in a rest day or two. These are days when we don’t run around very much, so we can enjoy the days when we do more.
Today was one of those days. I got a really good sleep last night. The mattress was firm and my [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Alaskan Rest Day
Posted in Day to day, General, Life, Native American, Travel, Vacation on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It Only Gets Better!
Posted in Birds, Day to day, General, Life, Travel, Vacation on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have never gone on any vacation before (and I have been on many) that got better day after day. I will no longer be able to say that. Alaska was awesome from day 1 and has only improved with time.
This morning we checked out of the hotel in Anchorage and our destination was Seward. [...]
Alaska – The State that Delivers!!
Posted in Day to day, Fibromyalgia, General, Life, Travel, Vacation on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, on our first day in this state, we had taken a short drive along the Seward Highway. While watching the tide rush back in to the inlet was interesting, it was the wildlife that really excited us.
Our trip took us no more than 15 to 20 miles away from our hotel in Anchorage. We [...]
Anchorage – Here We Are!
Posted in Airlines, Day to day, General, Life, Travel, Vacation on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s 8:20 PM here in Anchorage, Alaska – though you couldn’t tell it by looking out the window. If I were home, I’d think it was about 5:30 PM.
I really had to think about what time it was here because I can’t see a clock from here and when I looked at the time on [...]
Wild Send Off from Connecticut!
Posted in Day to day, General, Life, TV, Travel, Vacation on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We started off on another vacation early this afternoon. Our ultimate destination is Anchorage, Alaska tomorrow afternoon. But we left early this afternoon so we could stay at a hotel near the airport in Windsor, CT and not have to get up quite so early in the morning.
We stopped in Manchester, CT first. I needed [...]
Depressed in No Man’s Land
Posted in Day to day, Family, General, Lakota, Lakota friends, Life, Mental Health, Native American, PTSD on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just spoke to my friend on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, some 2000 miles away from me, for about an hour on the phone. (My husband will love that bill.) But there was no way I could hang up.
My friend lost her 16 year old daughter in mid-March. She died at a friend’s [...]
Evolving Prayer
Posted in Christian, Church, Day to day, General, Spiritual on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I was young, I grew up in the Roman Catholic Church. I went to CCD (aka Cathechism) classes. I memorized prayers. The Lord’s Prayer, the Hail Mary, the Glory Be, the Act of Contrition, the Act of Faith, the Act of Hope, the Apostles’ Creed, etc, etc, etc.
When I was a young adult, I [...]
Living by Lyrics
Posted in Day to day, General, Life, Spiritual on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A lot of people, many of them guys (or so it has been in my personal experience) really don’t listen to the lyrics of a song. They listen for the “music”, the beat, whatever. I am not one of those people.
I listen to the lyrics of every song I hear – or at least I [...]
Writer’s Cramp
Posted in Day to day, Fibromyalgia, General, Lakota, Lakota friends, Life on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently took a volunteer position with an organization that finds sponsors for Lakota children and elders on the Pine Ridge Reservation. I’ll be matching sponsors to those who need one in two areas of the reservation.
Little did I know (and wasn’t told when offered the spot) that I would need to send out letters [...]
Are you SAD? I Am.
Posted in Day to day, General, Health, Life, Mental Health on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SAD is not one of those anti-drunk-driving organizations (you know, MADD, RADD, etc). SAD is the acronym for Seasonal Affective Disorder.
As I sit here under my full spectrum light and look out at the gray sky for another day, I wonder if it is truly summer. I am feeling all the SAD things I usually [...]
