Life in the Middle Age Lane

Monday , August 28,  2017 ,  Strasbourg As John and I are enjoying new cities our own city is being bombarded with rain for 4 straight days. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.  Houston underwent a horrible deluge of rain from Hurricane Harvey.  Many creeks surround Houston and its suburbs and when 50 inches of rain fall these creeks overflow, and overflow, and overflow.   By day two we upgraded our phone plan to keep in contact with everyone back home.  Harvey made the world news and everyone in every country asked us how our family and home were once they found out we were from Houston.  It was surreal. Only one person in our family took in water.  Luckily she only received inches of water and not feet, like many others.  It was still hard to enjoy ourselves without thinking of all the water our poor Houston was receiving. Back to Strasbourg.....We woke in this city and opted for a bike tour. ...

Houston has been unusually cold lately.   The more I exercise the more I want to go clothes shopping. My kids think my life revolves around wine, my life revolves around them which leads me to drinking wine. I read on a tweet that grief is equal to the love we give and I found it profound. I love watching Game of Thrones but find that SNL got it right when they did the skit about it. (one of the writers has to be a prepubescent 13 year old with a fetish for boobies.) I do not dance enough with my husband and that would be one of my regrets. Thinking back when I was about 14, I wanted to be a clown....I often wonder if I would be in clown rehab by now if I had followed my dream. It's easy to lose who you are when you try to please everyone and not hurt anyone's feelings The love of my family speaks volumes of their beauty and perhaps my own.