Author Archives: JILLMETCALF

Earlier this week our small family celebrated my mother’s (aka, the Coach’s) birthday. 90 years young! It was a quiet, but fun day, with goodies being delivered to the door for her and take-out Chinese for dinner. This morning as … Continue reading →

Elvis The King. One song that stays with me after all these years…Did yooou ever, Did yoooever…Did you ever have one those days? Yep …I had one of those days!! I hate to shop. The Coach, my almost 90-year-old mother, … Continue reading →

OMG, you may say; here she goes again! 🙂 Well, I’ve been thinking about a facebook conversation this morning and it took me back…way, way back. I have a long-time friend, Marsha Canham. Actually, Marsha became not only a wonderful … Continue reading →

In my opinion you are either a morning person or you are not. I am not! In fact, I am a night-hawk. I like the quiet of the wee small hours to work, or to read, or to veg out … Continue reading →

…to all the Moms out there. My own mother turned 89 years young this past March 7th. On March 24th she missed the bottom step coming down a flight of stairs and fell, breaking her hip. The hip was replaced … Continue reading →

I love my car. It’s a 1999 Malibu. I know, there are people out there rolling their eyes…1999! Yikes! But I love this car…it’s the best car I’ve ever owned. Alas, I had decided it would take me through the … Continue reading →

I’m not a superstitious person, but I always believed if you had one bad thing happen and then a second bad thing happen, there would be a third bad thing. A lot of people I know believe the same. And … Continue reading →

I like to watch Wheel Of Fortune…love solving puzzles. Tonight there was a young woman contestant who teaches algebra in middle-school. There were several things I loved in school…the first of which was history. There were two things, as a … Continue reading →

Lila’s Dance went live at Amazon and Smashwords yesterday, which made me very happy…I didn’t think I was ever going to have that puppy available. *g* I kept editing it, even as I was proof reading. I didn’t change the … Continue reading →

Do you ever have flashes of fond memories that can be so far back in your past you tag them “Ancient”? Met up with an ex-neighbor recently. Our families lived side-by-side. And it made me think fondly of our days … Continue reading →