New Day: New Beginning

    2009

    • 2009 came and is going fast

      What an idea! But it’s not mine. I borrowed it from reading several personal development sites, that as we make resolutions for the new year, we should also acknowledge the events and accomplishments from the year before. We not only show our gratitude but also do a status check of our goals. We change what Continue reading

    • 2010 Promises to myself

      Pretty soon, like in 24 hours, I want to have my resolutions drawn. I don’t want to think of these as goals, because as goals, they would need to have plans and deadlines. So, they are promises to myself. This year, I want them simple. I learned from Kitty, my younger sister, to have a Continue reading

    • Split Pea Soup

      I first had my first split pea soup in Amsterdam, in a cavern. It was served with a ham hock, and is the best split pea soup ever. The ones from Andersen Pea Soup restaurants along Freeway 5  taste like from the cans! This recipe came out quite good. I made it for Christmas dinner Continue reading

    • 3 months after the stroke

      There’s still so many basic things that I can’t do. Hopefully things will return to normal soon … I live on that hope. We take so many things for granted when we’re healthy. I never knew that walking required so much coordination from the brain to the spine down to the toes. Dr. Guisado assured Continue reading

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    • it’s time again to dye my hair

      Every few months, I’m being reminded of my age when I look at the grey hair sprouting from the crown of my head. Not that my sweet and sensitive kids haven’t already regularly and explicitly reminded me of my position as the mother, and my age as being past the half-century mark. So it’s that Continue reading

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    • I think I’m bored!

      “There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is Continue reading

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