Our town is becoming inundated with people begging on street corners. I’m sure if they’re in my town, they are where you live too. From what I can tell, some corners are better than others. Big, dangerous intersections seem to be most popular. I twinge every time I see men, women and children clutching the […]
Good morning from overcast and very cold (11 degrees) Ohio. Well at least it’s in the double digits. It was -3 on Thursday morning! Today is a heat wave if there ever was one! I am the “guest blogger” of the group, Cheryll Hutchings, Editor-in-Chief of the Boomer Babes Rock Dream-Zine and this is my […]
I was driving home from Tulsa, leaving a church where I had just taught a workshop. My husband called. “Where are you, baby?”
“On 51.”
“Where on 51?”
“I don’t know,” I said again. “Let me check.”
I couldn’t have told you if I was at Mile Marker 10 or Mile Marker 50. I wasn’t sure if I had […]
Why am I writing about my dad on Valentine’s Day? Well, they say that daughters instinctively marry their dads and for 31 years I thought “I didn’t,” until last Christmas! You see, my dad is a sensitive guy, melancholy temperament, needs lots of time and space to himself, and a man of few words. But […]
Help!
I will by leaving my home within the next 24 (Jack Bauer, where are you?). I have six loads of clothes on the floor of my laundry room, one in the dryer and one in the washer. (And I wash clothes EVERY day.) I have beds to make and Girl Scout cookies to deliver. I […]
In one week, we celebrated a 50th and a 60th. Is this new? Do you remember your parents celebrating those birthdays? I don’t. I recall them celebrating the big anniversaries. Maybe we’ve switched because not many people are together long enough for the big anniversaries. Sad thought, but possible.
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As you know, every member of our Boomer Babe Blog Team has a specific day to post. Our Boomer Blog Babe every Tuesday is Eva Marie Everson. I count Eva Marie (aka: “Eva Diva”) as one of my closest friends.
She’s one of those amazingly diverse women in that she can be incredibly cerebral one […]
Allison Bottke is the founder of Boomer Babes Rock, God Allows U-Turns, and the International SANITY Support Group Network. She is the author or editor of more than 23 non-fiction and fiction books. Her column for boomer women appears monthly in Christian Women Online (CWO).