My favorite posts are the ones that includes my family. Today's post is one of those. We are lucky to have to beautiful daughters (yes, I am prejudice) and two pretty neat grandsons. Today, I'm joined by my daughter Michelle and our photographer, my youngest grandson. I originally went down to Joplin the weekend of [...]
This is a republication of a book review I did three years ago. I still think this is a very important book for anyone who wants to dress well with a conscience. As I mention in my original article, I remember when fashion was an investment and you made careful choices. Many of us learned [...]
My title today is sightly tongue in cheek. I don't consider myself a self made woman. I am who I am because of the people who have loved me and the people I have loved, my upbringing and the DNA handed down to me. But I will admit, I have gone my way on a [...]
 I feel this post is so rushed. When I retired, I told my students,"old teachers never really retire, they just come back to haunt you as substitutes". And last week was a lot of haunting, five full days of it. I wasn't going to do a post but then I realized that Monday is Judith's [...]
A few times during the year, Michael and I venture up to Kansas City to enjoy The Kansas City Symphony. For all the years we have been together (since 1970), classical music has been one of our shared loves. Now with the beautiful Kaufmann Center For the Art, our visual love of art and architecture [...]
We certainly didn't need wind machines on this day. Mother Nature did just fine. January 9th in Joplin probably wasn't the most cooperative day to take a few photos. But earlier, I made a deal with my Grandson; if he would take some pictures of me I would return the favor and take some shots [...]
