Category Archives: Things Keeping Us Going

I’m traveling for work to Washington, DC this week. So I’ve had the true joy of spending the weekend with fellow Sick Pilgrim Mary Bishop, and her DELIGHTFUL family, for the weekend. Despite flying out during Tropical Storm Nicole, the trip was completely uneventful, and the weather upon landing in Maryland, has been glorious. WeContinue reading “Things Keeping Us Going: Hanging with My Sickie Sister Edition”

I had a much slower go of it this weekend. My Personal Chef and I drove up to the White Mountains after work on Friday night, like we have done hundreds of times over the past four decades. After a quick pitstop for a snack and a drink at the lakeside bar filled with localsContinue reading “Things Keeping Us Going: Life in the Slow Lane Edition”

According to my weather-obsessed family, this was the last of the warm weather days for the year. I made the most of it. For starters, I took Friday off as a personal day. I SLEPT IN. That alone would be enough to call this a terrific weekend. But wait! There’s still more: I puttered aroundContinue reading “Things Keeping Us Going: Jam Packed, Action Filled Weekend Edition”

My parents’ home is on the biggest island in a big lake in New Hampshire. It is always beautiful. In October, though, it is transcendent. There is nothing more beautiful in the world than the sight of the White Mountains in the fall when the leaves change from green to brilliant reds, yellows, and oranges.Continue reading “Things Keeping Us Going: Country Fair Edition”

We are SO EXCITED! After years of talking about it, we have published our first book! We started at the beginning: with our own stories. Many of the writers involved with Sick Pilgrim worked together to put together an anthology of biographical essays that tell the very personal stories of our faith journeys. Sick Pilgrims:Continue reading “Things Keeping Us Going: We Published a Book Edition”

I am an avid gardener from a long line of avid gardeners. I married a chef who began his culinary career as a young boy working on the farms in his rural Maine hometown. Planting seeds, watering and weeding, nurturing all those fruits and veggies fills at least three seasons of our year. Looking forwardContinue reading “Things Keeping Us Going: A Disappointing Harvest Edition”

Next week I start my 37th school year as an educator. You would think that after all this time, it would be tiresome. Nope. As the principal I worked for the longest always said, “My two favorite days of the year are the First Day of School and the Last Day of School.” He’s notContinue reading “Things Keeping Us Going: Back to School Edition”

My Personal Chef and I are on vacation this week. Our plan was to finally make the trip to Canada that we had scheduled for our 30th anniversary two years ago, that had to be canceled back then because of Covid restrictions. See, for our first date, I got picked up from work on aContinue reading “Things Keeping Us Going: Nothing is Going to Plan Edition”

This weekend, for the first time in a very, very long time, there were four generations of my family at the lake house in New Hampshire. My parents did a fair-to-middling job preparing the house for their first great grandsons–a VERY busy toddler and his one-year-old brother. However, they did an EXCELLENT job spoiling themContinue reading “Things Keeping Us Going: Weekend at the Lake Edition”

It is Indepence Day here in the USA. I have mixed feelings today. Big feelings. Lots of us do, I know. I will be sure to write more about that in the near future. Right now, though, I am hopped up on prednisone for the poison ivy that is covering my face, right hand, andContinue reading “Things Keeping Us Going: Hanging on the Screen Porch Edition”