• COVID-19 Changes the World

    COVID-19 Changes the World

    Cruises and our Minnesota trip were canceled with the coronavirus turning our world upset down. We are the fortunate ones. Our full-service retirement community brings food, mail, and packages to our door. They started a small store so we can buy the basics such as bread, milk, eggs, butter, and a host of other items.…

  • Goodbye for Now

    Goodbye for Now

    After eleven years of blogging, it’s time for a break. 2020 is almost here so it seems a good time to stop. I find myself wondering what to write about each month. I have very few people reading the blog but it was never my intent to grow or monetize it. Since Dan’s genealogy is…

  • No Water

    No Water

    Do you take water for granted? We sure did until last Saturday night and Sunday. A water main broke about four blocks north of Charlestown on Maiden Choice Lane. Although the break was first called in at 5 p.m. on Saturday night, we didn’t lose water pressure until about 11 p.m. The repair didn’t start…

  • Treasure Sale

    Treasure Sale

    The Charlestown Treasure Sale happens quarterly, resulting in thousands of dollars for the Charlestown Benevolent Care Fund, the Film and Book Library, and other resident organizations. It is one of my favorite events looking for treasures among “stuff” from other residents. The furniture comes from the cleanout of apartments. Family members take what they want…

  • National Portrait Gallery

    National Portrait Gallery

    A September Charlestown trip took me to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. I worked down the block from it in the 1990s. My colleagues and I would go for lunch and sit in the courtyard when the weather was nice. I was surprised to see that the courtyard is now covered and the…

  • Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Center

    Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Center

    Charlestown offers day trips to interesting places so we took advantage of one trip recently. The Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia is the companion facility to the Museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC Two large hangars display thousands of aviation and space artifacts, including a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a Concorde, and the Space Shuttle Discovery. Our neighbor,…

  • Canada and New England Cruise

    Canada and New England Cruise

    Travel Day We enjoyed a ten day cruise on the Caribbean Princess starting in Quebec City and ending in New York City from August 9 to August 19, 2019. It is now 2:12 and we are on Air Canada heading to Quebec City after an ordeal at the Toronto airport. We had a very long…

  • The Science of Well-Being

    The Science of Well-Being

    What a great opportunity to complete a class from Yale’s University Laurie Santos titled The Science of Well-Being. I found out about the Coursea.org class through a sponsored Facebook post the first part of May. In fact, it was a few days before I went dark on Facebook.The Course description is as follows: [It] overviews what psychological…

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