Currently browsing For the Love of Grandparents

Y’all, my grandfather (affectionately known on this blog as The Dukester) passed away on Friday at the age of 93.  I will write a proper post next week after I return from his funeral service in Florida. 

For now, here’s a couple of posts that I previously wrote about my grandparents—memories that make me laugh even in the midst [...]

I found a beautiful way to express who you are from this post at Bleeding Espresso.  It’s a poem by George Ella Lyon that you can arrange into a poem of your own.  And like Bleeding Espresso, I used the poem format that SusieJ so kindly offered up to create my own poem.
That’s Where I [...]

“Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.” –Anonymous middle age person
Yep.  I’m officially elderly.  And to prove this, I’m writing a post about getting enough fiber in your diet.  Fiber, people.  Next thing you know I’ll start posting about Depends and hearing aids and whatnot.  I’m slowly turning [...]

So, let me just start by saying that my trip to Florida last week was quite the adventure.  And to top it all off, I foolishly stepped onto my scale yesterday morning and almost fell into a diabetic coma.  Not that I’m diabetic or anything, but I could very well be after all of the sugary [...]