Big Picture

Every once in a while I check the rear-view mirror of my life and am amazed and delighted at the life I have had – and have today, even though it is not at all the life I was expecting or planning for…I hope you can say the same.

These three humans have changed a great deal in the last 50+ years. LOL We don’t always know what we’re doing or where we’re going, but we stay connected to each other and the siblings and cousins that came later. We just do it (most of us anyway) not even a question for most of us.

I don’t blog every day, but I am learning every day. I try to share the best and worst of those lessons here, with you.

~R.

Blog | So I was thinking …

a lens for my perfectly flawed life

I was a daughter first

February 7, 2026

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…once she entered the Facebook universe, even Zuckerberg couldn’t tell us apart. FB defaulted all pictures of me to her profile

Maybe I Can’t Be Trusted

February 7, 2026

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I, like many other human beings, get a great deal of direction for my life out of a book, one important book. In that book I have learned about living a principled life, the necessity of serving others and that so much of my suffering has been and still is self-induced. I think I would …

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Speak Up Ladies

I’m So Fucking Mad

April 27, 2024

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“It’s not fair!”. Dad said, “Sissy, life isn’t fair.” – OMG you would have thought he shot our dog.

Happy Birthday, My Ass

March 23, 2024

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I said, “Getting older is a drag. I think 80 is just the right age to check out.”

He responded, “I did too, until I turned 80”

Oh we laughed and laughed – but I don’t remember speaking to him again after that.

Ingratitude or IN Gratitude?

March 23, 2024

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It never occurred to me that the blog name or website would be looked at as Ingratitude. HA! Silly redhead.