Memorial Day Musings

Joe and I went to the beach for the afternoon yesterday (Sunday), which seems completely surreal to me, that it’s possible to do this. We’re 90 minutes from Atlantic Beach and 2 hours from the Outer Banks. We took our youngest dog Zelda with us. She was very well behaved but acted like she wasn’t [...]

Graduation, Rain, Budget

Sorry for my tardiness in writing. Things have been crazy here. My daughter Ileana graduated from Medical University of South Carolina Medical School on Friday the 15 of May and we had a houseful of company, mainly relatives, which was wonderful, but I had to go back to work to recover. Ileana’s great uncle was [...]

May Musings after “the fall”

The State of N.C. budget gates came crashing down in mid-April, and it left us all somewhat stunned. We are actually sending books back to publishers and vendors, we’ve stopped the approval plan and only a very few invoices are getting paid. It’s like molasses. Most database renewals are being held and thankfully the vendors [...]

iPhone! Hooray!

I am so excited! I got an iPhone for Mother’s Day! I know that it’s not yet Mother’s Day but my husband was too excited to wait to give it to me. Now my daughter is helping me to input in all my addresses and telephone numbers. Pretty cool. And I have to learn about [...]