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Sick on vacation? Must haves to survive.
Aunts and uncles, cousins and grandparents, all gathered into a spacious cabin to celebrate family. This was us a few years ago. My oldest brother was getting married and we had gathered to celebrate that and my parents 50th anniversary. We rented a large cabin and were having a good time. At the wedding the groom was a little under the weather. We joked that it was just cold feet. 24 hours later, no one was in a joking mood. Our best bet is that we had norovirus. That lovely virus that sweeps cruise ships and is passed easily, had struck our family down. There were puking kids and adults…
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Squinting- stop suffering needlessly
The other day as I drove home from volunteering at my son’s school, the sun was shining in just the right spot to blind me. It wasn’t glaring through the wind shield. It wasn’t quite shining through the side window. Instead, it was glinting somewhere in between and right into my eyes. As I drove along, alone with my thoughts for a rare few minutes, I squinted against the brightness. After some time, it dawned on me that there is a lovely invention called a visor. Reaching up, I flicked the visor down into place. As soon as the shade hit my eyes, I uttered an involuntary, audible sigh of…
