I am so far behind on this blog! We were away for several days, staying in a cabin on the Shenandoah River while moving our son out of his dorm room to return home for the summer. Internet access was slow and spotty, but I can’t blame the internet entirely. Mostly we were just tooContinue reading “Running Behind”
Category Archives: Virginia
Back Home Again
I have not posted a lot because I’ve been away for the past few days. My mother had a medical procedure on Thursday, some tests done as a follow-up to surgery she had done in October. I drove down to Williamsburg on Wednesday, drove her to an from the hospital on Thursday, and stayed untilContinue reading “Back Home Again”
A New Semester Begins
Winter break is over, and my son went back to campus today. It’s also his 21st birthday! So he’s out of that gray area between 17 and 21, when he was an adult for some things and not others. It shouldn’t be that hard to believe. He’s 6-foot-3 and wears a size 15 shoe. ButContinue reading “A New Semester Begins”
Concert Month
I attended a concert at my son’s university last night, a student recital. The school really does have an excellent music department, though I’m afraid a lot of non-music majors and their parents don’t know it. The concert was the senior recital of a Music Composition student. These recitals are completely student-directed. He had toContinue reading “Concert Month”
Wordless Wednesday: Midnight Concourse
Wordless Wednesday: JMU Robot
About Last Week…
I’ve neglected this blog for more than a week because I was at my mother’s house. She was scheduled for a routine inpatient procedure on Tuesday morning of last week. I had to drive my son back to school on Sunday (he was home for the weekend) and then headed to my mother’s straight fromContinue reading “About Last Week…”
Wordless Wednesday: Sunset, Newport News
Father’s Day Festivities
Yesterday was Father’s Day, and Bob’s choice of what do for it involved eating crabs by the Chesapeake Bay. So we drove out to Deale, Maryland, in the afternoon and ate at a restaurant on the dock, with a view of the boats. The weather was perfect, Bob got his crabs, and my vegetable-averse sonContinue reading “Father’s Day Festivities”