Visible Woman

Ever since I learned to play tennis, I've enjoyed watching it and reading about it. I learned to play a little in 1970. I don't pla...

I said I wouldn't mention downsizing again. But it's hard to avoid. Some friend suggested that I scan some stuff and then discard it...

Maybe it was Lady Bird's several day tribute with the funeral, fifty-mile cortege and the burial, all on TV. This shop window on South C...

Picture of random books taken some time in the past somewhere in the house. I am tired of talking about downsizing. That isn't all I do....

The big news here is that they are burying Lady Bird Johnson this morning. The ceremonies have taken all weekend. We didn't line up alo...

As those of you following along at home on the downsizing slippery slope may know, I often think of my 'stuff' in terms of cubic fee...

Sunday we were visiting the South Congress area. Some businesses have moved or folded and the ones occupying space keep tending to the upper...

Sorting through a box of things I'd saved for a collage project. (Remember there was plenty of storage around here if we were going to s...

Part of downsizing is sorting stuff that has been sorted before. Including allegedly arty photographs of collage-like arrangements I took wi...

Ever feel like you are sort of missing from your own life? I don't know what it is but I feel disconnected today. Unable to solve some p...

Every quarter or so we get a postcard from the city announcing 'Large Item Pickup.' They promise to take lumber, furniture, applianc...

What was it old Kris Kristofferson said in that song I loved to hear Janis sing back in the day (the early seventies for me). Oh, yeah. ...

I retired in late September 2002, and, at the usual moment for such things (the new year), I made a list of resolutions (show here with com...

There is our condo building rising beyond the tangle of power switching equipment next to the Seaholm plant. I thought of putting this entry...

We have gotten to go to a few events in the last year or so at The Pease Mansion . (Scroll down a bit on this link to find some info on it.)...

Sometimes it's tempting to discard some things because they are cards and letters I wrote and they show what a dumb a-- I was! Of course...

I am busy. Five days a week I get up for a morning activity at my club. MWF is water aerobics. We welcomed the instructor back from jury dut...

Yesterday, I was all cheer about everything. I was working on the projects I have for my country club board. They are frustrating in the way...

I've made several decisions over the past few weeks about stuff to keep and stuff to let go. I told FFP yesterday that I wanted to keep ...

Newspapers aren't really the problem. No matter how long they sit around eventually they hit the recycle bin. No. Things of more substan...