Hiking Trip Part Four- the day hike-cemetary

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Hiking Trip Part Four- the day hike-cemetary

Hiking Trip Part Four- the day hike-cemetary

 The day hike: the cemetary Last time I left you with the incident that created my trail name. Stinger. Haha. Well, it sort of fits. I buzzed the hill and stung my bucket list with hiking and camping in the middle of my life. And for sure, will do it again. I am conditioning now for the next one. Would like to see what the PNW has to offer in wild life. Going back to Alabama though. There is a HILL I want to scale. So, the next day, after getting up and drinking instant coffee with powdered creamer and

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Before you kick the bucket, you should know…

Before you kick the bucket, you should know…

Recently, my daughter and I were discussing bucket lists. She said she has a mental one, nothing written down. I do too, but feel the need to begin writing it down as I seem to forget more than I remember these days. If you are like me, and want to address some things before you kick the bucket, maybe this post will help. I feel like I have spent my life seeking reality. Real people, real values, real solidity in nature, just real “stuff”. I have learned now, I think, to not pay so much attention to other people and

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List of 100 movies you must see before you die

List of 100 movies you must see before you die

Movie watching is one of the ways some authors get ideas to write books, because let’s face it, there ain’t nothing new under the sun so far as plotlines go. But it’s how an author puts their twist or spin on a plotline that makes the difference. And really, imaginations are limitless and so there are a lot of ways to movies to make a book. According to IMDb this is the list of 100 movies you should see before you die. They are in order as listed on the IMDb page., but they say this movie listing is “…not

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Vacation Bucket List

Vacation Bucket List josephdepalma / Foter / Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0) Well, ok, a bucket list is supposed to be a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket. But here are things I want to do before I get off vacation, which starts, by the way, in exactly 56 hours. 1. Enjoy the journey. I have a bad habit of hating the trip (flying) to anywhere I have to sit in a plane to get to. I do not care for being up in the air jetting across the country. I

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