Today, I’m thankful for my “Cushie Car”. Since I started attending Cushing’s events, I’ve always tried to rent a PT Cruiser. There’s just been something about them that I liked. A couple of years ago, after my son was out of school, I was getting tired of driving the Mom-Carpool-Van everywhere. I think my …
Category: Giving Thanks
Jan 13
Not Friday the 13th This Year
Today, January 13, holds a couple anniversaries for me. I remember the day of the Air Florida Flight 90 Crash in 1982 so well. We were living in the Metro DC area and our young son had just turned 2 in December. Tom, my DH, worked in DC and I was never sure the route that …
Nov 12
Day 27: 40 Days of Thankfulness
Last Thursday, I had occasion to be very thankful for helpers, one of whom extricated my finger from the door of my car and others who supplied band-aids and Tylenol. I’ll probably write more about this later on my medical blog but it’s hard to type with a broken finger 🙁
Nov 11
Day 26: 40 Days of Thankfulness
Giving thanks to our Veterans today I’m not sure how Veterans Day turned into a holiday and a day to sell stuff, but then, most every holiday has turned into a day for stores to run “sales”. Possibly, the original intent was to give our veterans a break but it has sure morphed away …
Nov 06
Day 21: 40 Days of Thankfulness
It was a cold and rainy morning and my car wouldn’t start. Today, I’m thankful for AAA and its mobile app.
Nov 04
Day 23: 40 Days of Thankfulness
Our son Facetimes most every Sunday, just to chat. I am thankful that he’s doing so well for himself, has a wonderful new wife, has a good job, good friends, is a fine musician and that he’s not afraid to say he loves his parents. We love you, too!
Nov 03
Day 22: 40 Days of Thankfulness
Today is the 31st anniversary of my pituitary surgery at NIH. As one can imagine, it hasn’t been all happiness and light. Most of my journey has been documented here and on the message boards – and elsewhere around the web. My Cushing’s has been in remission for most of these 31 years. Due …
Music
- ✅ AA Open Meeting, TodayDiscover a supportive space for new beginnings! Join us every Wednesday at 6:00 PM, in the serene ambiance of Pender UMC's Library. At 5:00 PM there will be a time of casual chat, known as the "meeting before the meeting". Engage in meaningful conversations and find camaraderie at our AA meetings, guided by the experienced […]
- 🌸 May Day!May Day has been celebrated for centuries as a vibrant festival of spring, signaling the arrival of warmer weather. Traditionally marked by dancing, singing, and feasting, the day also features the iconic maypole, adorned with streamers and flowers.
- 📊 Google Docs for Beginners, TodayGoogle Docs for Beginners is a workshop that teaches the basics for working with Google docs. There will be five sessions: Session 1: May 1 – Gmail and Google Docs
- 🪴 Neighborhood Plant Clinic TodayDrop-in for horticultural tips, information, techniques, and advice from the Fairfax County Master Gardeners.
- 🧵 Centreville Sewciety: Sewing Club for All Levels, TodayJoin us for traditional hand sewing, crochet, and embroidery! Chat, make friends, and work on sewing projects with your community.
- 🔟 Ten Events happening May 4- Feed Fairfax 5k - STEM Adventures - Neighborhood Plant Clinic - Spring Farm Day - Ballet Storytime - Plant Swap - Mahjong - Star Wars Day Jedi Training - Alice GuZheng Ensemble - Live Concert: Celebrations!
- 📚 Little Wiggles Storytime, May 2Join us to have fun together with stories, songs, fingerplays, lap bounces, books and social time for children from birth to 20 months!
- 🎭 Free Theatre Workshop for 4th – 8th graders, May 3During the workshop, you will play theatre games, take a tour of our auditorium including the lights and sound booth, props, and costumes, learn and perform a piece of choreography from the show, and have a Q&A with members of our cast and crew!
- 🥇 First Friday, May 3Celebrate First Friday at Historic Downtown Manassas! Come with your family and friends to enjoy the charm of our city. Find excellent promotions and offers that restaurants, cafes and stores have.
- 🥁 Fun with Music for Preschoolers, MondaysStep into a world of giggles and song with “Fun “with Music at Pender! This is not just any music class – it's a journey through sound and imagination designed especially for preschoolers and their favorite grown-ups. Since 2013, Jim and Roberta Pont have been creating a space where tiny toes tap, and little voices […]
Little Free Library
- Dying To Date: Love, betrayal, murder—a great first dateBy a good friend of mine! When dying to date Mr. Right leads to finding Mr. Wrong—it’s deadly. Relationship expert Kristina Truly has a proven track record of dating the wrong men. However, her highly publicized romantic failures don’t stop her fans from attending her Finding Mr. Right, Not Mr. Perfect seminars and reading her […]
- The Poisoned PeerThe 99-year-old Earl of Middlemop has had his future cruelly snatched from him. Who could have poisoned the richest man in Wessex? The answer lies within the walls of Gripedown Hall where family secrets and bitter rivalries prevail. Senior sleuths Churchill and Pemberley investigate on the behest of their friend Tryphena Ridley-Balls. However, another friend […]
- Murder in the ManorMURDER IN THE MANOR (A LACEY DOYLE COZY MYSTERY—BOOK 1) is the debut novel in a charming new cozy mystery series by Fiona Grace. Lacey Doyle, 39 years old and freshly divorced, needs a drastic change. She needs to quit her job, leave her horrendous boss and New York City, and walk away from the […]
- Murder on a Midnight ClearA snowbound country mansion, a missing butler, and a Christmas case . . . Olive and Jasper have never been closer—except in one area. Jasper is still reticent about his frequent disappearances from polite society. With the holidays approaching and no paying client on the books, Olive decides to shadow Jasper when he’s unexpectedly called […]
- Discerning GraceAs the first full-length novel in The White Sails Series, DISCERNING GRACE captures the spirit of an independent woman whose feminine lens blows the ordered patriarchal decks of a 19th century tall ship to smithereens. Wilful Grace Baxter, will not marry old Lord Silverton with his salivary incontinence and dead-mouse stink. Discovering she is a […]
- The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel (A Thursday Murder Club Mystery Book 1)A New York Times bestseller | Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment “Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining.” —Wall Street Journal “Don’t trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian sleuths in Osman’s own laugh-out-loud whodunit.” —Parade Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her […]
- Body on Baker Street (A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery Book 2)The amateur sleuths at the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop must call upon the powers of deduction in order to rid Baker Street of a ruthless killer Gemma Doyle and Jayne Wilson are busy managing the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium on Baker Street and adjoining Mrs. Hudson’s Tea Room in anticipation of the store’s upcoming book […]
- The Devil and the Dark Water (A Locked-Room Historical Mystery)A murder on the high seas. A remarkable detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. It's 1634, and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Traveling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who […]
- Too Many WomenAh, sweet mystery, when Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin plunge into a case of murder brimming with luscious, lethal ladies. Who murdered Waldo Wilmot Moore? Well, there were five hundred female employees at the Wall Street firm where poor Waldo had worked. Any one of them might have done it. And there was also the […]
- Christmas Cupcake MurderAs December turns Lake Eden, Minnesota, into the North Pole, the heat is on in Hannah Swensen’s kitchen to honor two Christmas promises: baking irresistible holiday cupcakes and preventing an attempted murderer from succeeding the second time around! While Hannah speeds through a lengthy holiday checklist, drama in town grows like Santa’s waistline on Christmas […]