Chanel Jacket- To Bucket List

Oh yes-- I'd like a Chanel jacket added to my bucket list :). Coco Chanel was quite the woman-- her fashions were timeless and elegant bar none.

Beginning A Bucket List

Should I begin a bucket list? If so what would I want to do? Not exactly sure, but how about this:
* Watch a segment of the Tour de France in France
* Write something that gets published
* Visit the world's sacred places
* Write my memoir (or at least part of it)
* Vacation in the Florida Keys and visit the home of Hemingway
* Finish reading ALL of Hemingway's works
* Watch my daughters climb Kilimanjaro (maybe accompany them if I can)
* Stay a month at the beach
Ok- that's a start-- no doubt I'll add to this as it will be a work in progress :)

Am I Clever, Or What?

Now that I'm back into swimming, there is the issue of being able to lock my valuables in the Women's Locker Room lockers. I've forgotten the combination to the lock I used last Fall, so I bought a new one, and after one time (basically one use), I forgot the combination!!!

So what to do? Well, I came up with what I thought was a clever idea... I bought some cheap flip-flops and with a Sharpie wrote the combination on the sole of my flip-flops. Sharpie ink never wears off-- or so it says. Guess this will be the test.

Let's see how this works next week- maybe I'll also write the combination in the hem of my towel-- that way I'll have extra insurance that I won't forget it. Stay tuned... :)

After Dinner Coffee-- and Mosquitos :(

We have just a little while after we have dinner to enjoy sitting in the backyard to drink our coffee before the mosquitos move in... after a few very hot and humid days, these backyard moments are precious...

Hot, Hot, HOT- Summer in Delaware

The temp has cooled a bit-- down to 89 today but the humidity is high. I love summer, but the temps and humidity can get uncomfortably hot. We went from having a long, cold winter, to no spring, and now a hot summer. Last week we enjoyed a few wonderful evenings of drinking our evening coffee in the yard, but now it's back to living in an air conditio

ned environment.

"Doctoring" Away This Summer- Light At the End of the Tunnel?

The challenge of working toward earning a doctorate is that it never seems to end!

Sometimes life gets in the way and it's easy to get derailed. Going down rabbit holes... not the best approach but I have learned more than I have room for in my brain! Sometimes I feel like my harddrive-brain is full. However, my day in Ashburn yesterday was very productive as my Chair and I reviewed my writing in detail. The revisions will be made soon and then on to the next chapter!...

Perhaps I'm beginning to see a glimmer of light at the end of the tunell after all... :)

The Pool at the HAC

Even though I'm a lousy swimmer I really enjoy swimming in the pool at my club! It's a salt water pool. I haven't been in months, but my recent efforts to get back into motion, first by walking everyday and now adding swimming to the mix, makes me feel good. As they say "a body in motion stays in motion" and I know I need to keep moving just to keep from getting stiff! My poor arthritic ankles do so much better h=when I walk and swim-- and even the rotator cuff tear appears to heal after a while :). I'm just lucky in that we have such a great athletic club in the area-- and everytime I do go, I thank my lucky stars for it. There's just something about being in the water that seems to restful and soothing-- even when working up a sweat and doing those laps!