Category: ramblings

  • Summary: The weekly menu features roast, hamburgers, meatloaf muffins, Korean beef, taco soup, and leftovers, with Saturday undecided.

  • Summary: Discovering 2023’s theme led to choosing “IMAGINE” for 2024.

  • The post discusses New Year’s resolutions, an adventure in Dayton, Ohio, and meal plans for the week, including gluten-free options.

  • The writer shared their recent experiences, including a gluten-free meal, a favorite gift, the challenges of December, and their pets’ antics.

  • So today, I cleaned out and organized my fridge’s freezer. Since I started my master’s program, I needed to ensure I had ready meals when I went back to school in a month. With the rising food price, I am happy I have meat ready to go so I can feed my family. I’ve had…

  • 2 years ago, it was a typical Thursday. It was the last day of the quarter. The next day was supposed to be a teacher’s workday. Spring break was in 2 weeks. Right before car rider duty, I get word that schools were going to be closed to flatten the curve. I can remember it…

  • Paul gives the directive to forget the past. We need to look forward to the future. Which is true. Sometimes our past is the key to our future. We need to look back for one reason. I’ll explain the reason later in this post. On July 14, 1985, I left behind my past. A difficult…

  • The morning after Memorial Day, I’m outside chasing my dog at 4 o’clock in the morning. The sky is full of stars and the air is perfectly still. I breathed a sigh of relief because I made it through the holiday without any major incidents. Then the news comes in that morning about George Floyd…

  • This is not a new feeling that I’m experiencing right now. Over the last few days, there has been unrest in the United States over the heinous injustice to George Floyd. Unfortunately it’s not an isolated incident. It’s an ongoing battle where the blacks rightly so feel injustice from whites. As a white middle aged…

  • I’ve been de-cluttering my house.  While I was cleaning up, I found many photos of family and friends. One of the photos I found was of my grandpa in his favorite chair. 1.  The mug probably had coffee in it. 2.  Near the coffee mug is a white dish.  That is his ashtray for his…