Respected women, part 2

On September 15th, I wrote a post about my maternal grandmother and how I respected her efforts in raising a family during the Great Depression. On the other side of Missouri, there was another woman who was doing the same thing. She is my paternal grandmother and lived outside of St. Louis in the Wentzville …

Respected women, part 1

Life is hard now. Inflation is nowhere under control, supply chains are still messed up and with the current financial and political situation in our country, people are struggling on all fronts. According to Bloomberg.com, 20 million Americans cannot pay their utility bills and the amount they owe has doubled since before the pandemic. That's …

There’s a (deleted) app for that

Six months ago, Entrepreneur signed me up for our auto insurance's safe driver app. The carrot was if I "proved" I was a safe driver, there would be a discount on our renewal premium in September. I was less than thrilled but agreed to try it for six months. Notice, HE didn't offer to put …

August photo challenge: Pooch

PJ's photo prompt for August was Pooch. Given that he recently added a fur baby to his family, this makes sense so I imagine there will be a lot of pooch pup photos this month. I wanted to try and come up with at least one non-pooch pup idea and it took a little thinking …

New definition of Hot Mess

Post menopause, retirement and pandemic pounds have taken its toll on me the past few years. I've always struggled to maintain a healthy weight and it's becoming obvious I'm losing the war with age and gravity. Recently, I read a book titled Younger Next Year for Women. The premise of the book is how women …