First, we were to get to Dulles around 8:00 PM. This would put us home around 10 or 10:30 PM. Not so bad. Now the Jet Blue flight doesn’t leave the gate until 8:30 PM. We get in after 10 PM. By the time I collect my wife’s luggage and we drive home, it will be after midnight. I suppose it could be worse. With the unpredictable weather patterns currently, there could be … [Read more...] about Why Does JetBlue Keeps Pushing Back Our Return Flight?
Mental Health
Hurry Up And Wait
I don’t understand why things seem so hard right now. Once again, I am so close to the finish line, but I cannot get past it. I can see the end from here. I knowwhat it would feel like, how it would smell. Heck, I even know what it would taste like. But I am stuckhere, twiddling my thumbs, as I wait for something to happen. Having been in a holding pattern for a while, … [Read more...] about Hurry Up And Wait
Surprise, It’s April Fool’s Day
When the kids were young, they had a standing April Fool’s joke. One of them would get a rubber band. Then, they would twist the rubber band around the sprayer onthe kitchen sink. When I would use the sink, their trick would get me. Turning on the faucet would nowturn on the kitchen sink sprayer. And then I was surprised. Every year, I would be sprayed with water. And … [Read more...] about Surprise, It’s April Fool’s Day
When Do I Know What I Want?
Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash Is it something I can share, or is it more esoteric? Am I going to write about it or am I going to spend a page or more, avoiding talking about it. Sometimes I just need to warm up my brain before I can open up about what I actually decided to write about. Ok, it’s most of the time. I almost always seem to ramble on about something, … [Read more...] about When Do I Know What I Want?
Is The New Year A New Life?
Photo by Manuel Sardo on Unsplash 2024 really sucked. I lost my Mother towards the end of March, and my wife lost her Father in late November. And my adult children lost the two grandparents that they had grown up with. Even if my Mom’s passing was expected, after all, she was 96, going on 97. Thinking about it happening is different than it actually happening. My … [Read more...] about Is The New Year A New Life?
