Sherry | July 6, 2008
We use our credit card for just about everything we buy. It simplifies accounting and is just plain handy.
The pile of mail delivered when we got home from our travels included our credit card statement/bill. It showed about half of our trip charges, and I was pleased with how few service fees we incurred for [...]
Sherry | February 17, 2008
I just came home from worship (first of three morning services). I usually sit down in the front because Mauri can join me there after he’s finished with his part of the service. This morning I chose the less-populated balcony, mainly because I didn’t want to share any lingering contagion I might have carried with [...]
Sherry | February 1, 2008
Michael Chapman tagged me. So here goes.
6 Non-Important things/habits/quirks about myself:
One—I’m really good at getting rid of stuff, but I can’t bring myself to part with boxes and other storage containers. I never know when I might need one that size.
Two—My mother misspelled my name on my birth certificate. I’m sure she was overwhelmed by [...]
Sherry | January 27, 2008
Mauri returned yesterday from his month at the coast. We were both ready to resume our normal way of life. While talking on the phone and dropping each other e-mail notes is very nice, nothing quite measures up to the joys of cohabitation. Mauri gets as well as gives in those weeks of retreat ministry, [...]
Sherry | November 16, 2007
We have a ridiculous law in Oregon that gives pedestrians the right of way. Sure, they’re supposed to cross in designated crosswalks, but I’ve witnessed enough close calls to convince me people have grown delusional about their own mortality. They will cross wherever they very well please, sometimes not even looking first, and expect cars [...]
Sherry | October 9, 2007
All these clothes would look just great
If only I would lose some weight.
Last night I went to my first Weight Watchers meeting. Saw five people I know. Signed up. Paid the money. Weighed. Painful. Stayed for orientation. Waiting till Mauri gets back from Philadelphia so we can start together. Meanwhile, eating, um, well. While I [...]
Sherry | September 30, 2007
Mauri has enjoyed taking his digital SLR camera to the wildlife reserve in Sherwood, a neighboring town, to shoot birds for his growing collection. Herons, especially. He’s enjoyed watching the development of the reserve, with the addition of walkways and observation benches. Last week, as we drove past on our way in from the airport, [...]
Sherry | September 27, 2007
Earlier this week I had a parking-lot conversation with Pete Snow, whose wife had died two weeks earlier. Somehow we got to talking about cremation. I listened to his opinions and stories on the topic and then, to illustrate my related opinions, I asked his permission to tell one of my two stories. I told [...]
Sherry | July 27, 2007
Singing has been part of who I am my whole life. My parents recognized a musical bent in me when I was still so little I had to stand on the front pew of the church to sing solos while my mother accompanied me on the piano. Singing was the identity that gave me enough [...]
Sherry | June 17, 2007
Since Mauri is not prone toward self-promotion, I’m the one left to report that his single-seater recumbent bike odometer turned over to 7,000 miles on his last ride. Of course his lifetime mileage would soar into numbers way higher, probably six figures, since he’s been an avid bike rider for many years. Having lived in [...]