Tag: Thoughts
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Peyton Manning, NFL Sunday Ticket and Pizza – Life Is Good!!
The 2015 NFL Season officially begins in our house today with the return of Peyton Manning for his 18th season hopefully leading the Denver Broncos to a Super Bowl victory over Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys (we are done talking about our MLB World Series dream, Nationals/Tigers, which did not end well). Both teams…
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35 Years of Enjoying AC/DC’s Back in Black Album
Earlier this week my husband and I had the chance to see one of my favorite groups, the Australian rock band AC/DC, when their Rock or Bust World Tour made a stop at Ford Field in Detroit. The last time I saw AC/DC live was in 1988 for the Blow Up Your Video Tour at…
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Someone Needs To Tell My Mom That “There’s No Crying In Baseball!”
(Post by Gabby – The Yorkie Blogger/Photos by A Curious Introvert) We are in desperate need of a baseball intervention for my mom after the New York Mets swept the Washington Nationals to take a seven game lead in the NL East. Not only did the losses put the Nationals in a very difficult position…
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“You Don’t Choose A Life, You Live One” – Musings about Life and the Wonderful Movie, The Way
Very early in the film, The Way (currently streaming on Netflix), there is a scene of a father (Martin Sheen) driving his son (Emilio Estevez) to the airport after the son has made the decision to drop out of graduate school and travel the world. The son asks the father to join him on his…
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Dedicated to the Women Who Walk Alone
“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before” (Photos by A Curious Introvert) Throughout life we find ourselves defined by a lifetime of labels, some of our own choosing and others…
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see. – Henry David Thoreau
(Photos by A Curious Introvert) As we journey out into the world each day we encounter various opportunities, experiences, images and people in the universe and it is the careful observer who takes the time to truly observe the wonder and promise of everything around them. It is fascinating to realize that as we walk…
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Simple Enjoyments of a Garden-Variety Day

(Photos by A Curious Introvert) Sometimes in life when there is no vacation on the horizon and days seem to be merging together into a blur of activities and worries, it is very easy to miss all the wonderful and simple enjoyments that can be found in an ordinary day of life. Often we…
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The Gift of Sunrise
(Photos by A Curious Introvert) In the magical hour of the morning as nighttime fades and the moon slips away to bring forth the gift of another day and a magnificent sunrise on the horizon, we are given the opportunity to witness beauty and start afresh. There is no guarantee that the sunrise that greets…
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Musings About The American Dream in Crisis

After I quit watching NBC Nightly News when Brian Williams was suspended, I turned to PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill for a nightly source of news (I have no plans of returning to NBC Nightly News after watching their great segments on a regular basis). Back in March I watched the segment…