Salty, Sweet and Just Right

This post goes out to Becky at Blessings Thru Raindrops. Her post about putting good stuff into the world that is filled with, well, put nicely, not a lot of good stuff, sounded like something I wanted to do too.

So here it is…

Charlotte’s response to the theme “A gift salty, sweet, just right.”

I grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in a beautiful neighborhood called the Las Olas Isles. Our house was less than a mile from A1A and the Atlantic Ocean. It was a wonderful place to live and even as a child I was aware of just how special it was.

Sunshine.

Warm weather.

And a boat at my backyard dock.

I mean really, what’s not to love? Continue reading

Weekly Photo Challenge: KISS

Dad with his crew 2a

KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid.

My dad used to say that a lot. I didn’t understand it when he did. I was a kid. What did I know about running a business, or even life for that matter.

Dad died just a few months after my college graduation and in the 25 years since he has been gone I have used that expression to help shape how I live my life, or at least try to live it.

Maybe it’s silly of me, but in a way I think it’s how I have kept him with me all these years. It’s how my husband, my children and yes, even me as the adult I never was while he was alive, got the chance to know him. 

KISS is how I imagine my dad ran his business.

KISS is how I imagine he would answers many of the questions about life I never got to ask.

KISS is how I kept the spirit, the attitude and the love of my dad with me, always.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond

Framed Moon over Nott

It was while sitting in a university’s student union, having coffee with my husband, that I was compelled to get up and use one of the school’s computers to log into WordPress. (Yup, kinda always thinking about WordPress! :-) ) I wanted to find out what this week’s photo challenge theme was because I had brought my camera along on this trip, somehow already knowing the theme, and our day, would go together.

And when I saw it, I smiled. It was perfect. One single word described so well what this moment was for us.

Beyond.

Our whole day was about beyond. Continue reading

An Officer and a Gentleman

My flying friend framed

One helluva great guy has Gone West today. To think I got to sit beside and listen to someone who visited the Spirit of St. Louis at Roosevelt Field before Lindbergh’s famous flight, who flew B-17s in WW2, who was present at the Nuremberg Trials. Because of my friend I not only got to touch history, but I got to know what it is to have my heart forever touched by a truly splendid gentleman.

Blue Skies, my friend.

H.S. 1915 – 2013