May has been a crazy but fun month!     Traveling was on the agenda, and I was gone almost every weekend!    Two girls weekends, 3 days in Vegas then going to Pittsburgh to visit my Mom and my son, then to Continue reading Catching up! →

I am originally from McKeesport, PA, a city about 12 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.     It was a great place to grow up in the late 60’s and early 70’s.    The steel mills were booming, people were employed, businesses thrived and people were happy.    Then it all came crashing down.   Steel mills closed, people lost their jobs, businesses failed, people moved away.     McKeesport is a shell of what it once was, but it is still home to me.

Pittsburgh is a very unique city.    It has so much to offer in terms of sports, arts, outdoor activity, biking, boating, historical places to visit, museums, food, diversity etc….   The Steelers, Pirates and Penguins have a huge following all over the country (especially the Steelers – the Terrible Towel is everywhere!).     There is something for everyone.

I try to come to Pittsburgh about once a month to visit my Mom and my son, who is going to college in Pennsylvania.     I stay with my Mom and I don’t have to rent a car since my son has a car there and we just share.    It’s nice to catch up with old friends and family, and to visit different places in Pittsburgh.     My son and I especially love the estate sales.    We have gotten some good stuff!    That is a whole other column.

I’m back home in Sugar Land now and will go back to Pittsburgh in May.    Can’t wait!

After taking a few months off, I am back to blogging again.    I was trying to decide what direct direction to take the blog, and I’m just about there.     I want to write about life, people and what makes you happy.     People never cease to amaze me, just when I think I know someone they do something totally off the mark.     But that is what makes us all unique individuals.

This  year I would like to reflect on what makes us happy and how to achieve maximum happiness in this crazy world we live in.   We are only on this earth for a finite number of days and we do not know how many days we have.   It could be 1, 100 or 10,000 more days to live.    Let’s try to live each one to the fullest.    We all have our peaks and valleys, highs and lows and that allows us to be the people we have become.    Sometimes we have very dark moments where nothing seems to be going right, we feel rejected and people are against us.    Those times are very difficult.    But if we can get through them, there will be good times ahead.     I hope everyone will experience good times in their life.

I love to travel to Pittsburgh to visit my Mom.   She is a wonderful 82 year old woman who has a heart of gold.     She can be very trying at times and say some things that hurts your feelings, but she loves me and all her children, grandchildren and great-grandson very much.       I went back in January and February and experienced snow storms both times.   We were literally snowed in the last weekend in January!     She taught me how to crochet (I never really wanted to learn when I was younger, but now it’s the latest craze) and I made a scarf that weekend.     I’m now making a baby afghan for my grandson due to arrive on September 3rd.

Here is a picture of the scarf I made: