Santa Fe:  Snowy and cold, holiday lights twinkling, pinon and Southwest spices in the air, luminarias, art galleries.  I can feel it already.  I am so looking forward to some alone time with Randy.  No “kids,” just us.  We plan on dinner at the Coyote Cafe.  Yes, it’s a splurge…but what a great way to [...]

Randy talked me into making a doc appointment on Friday.  Luckily they got me in that afternoon.  My blood pressure while there was up into the 160s systolic over 110s diastolic.  They gave me a “rescue” pill to take (clonidine) and she prescribed Altace (ramipril) on a daily basis instead of the drug I had [...]

I woke up Wednesday morning with a pounding headache.  No, alcohol was not involved.   This headache has refused to leave me for 3 days now.  I manage to take the edge off but it never goes away completely and then intensifies again.  I woke up with it again this morning and it was hurting [...]

In my last post, I expressed my feeling that Christmas is really for children.  Case in point:  This is Jasmine, daughter of proud parents J. D. and Angela, dear friends of ours.  Jasmine’s grandmother made this outfit!  Isn’t she the cutest thing you’ve ever seen?

I really don’t know what has happened to me over the years, but I really have come to dislike Christmas (other than the spiritual symbolism). I always loved Christmas as a child and have many happy memories.  It wasn’t just the gifts.  It was so many other things that enchanted me.  Now, I don’t want [...]