Tag: love
Posted on January 28, 2023
by JANET L BARKER
Leave a Comment
The sun warms my face and bones. It’s summer, late January. Cloudless. With this exciting cornucopia of impromptu events taking place right outside my balcony. Including the heartbreaking cries of a baby downstairs. This has thus far been such a quiet apartment complex, except… Continue Reading “Diving acrobats of the sea”
Category: UncategorizedTags: ##portofinohotel, #California, #education, #grandparents, #gratitude, #healing, #hope, #lifeizgood, #loveeverymoment, #movingon, #ocean, #peace, #portofinoapartments, #redondobeach, #redondobeachmarina, #retiredteacher, #teachers, #teaching, #wonder, @retirement, love
Posted on January 20, 2023
by JANET L BARKER
1 Comment
An Open Letter to the Folks at the Portofino Hotel and Apartments: The sliding windows are open and although it’s brisk, it is blue, and blue and cornflower blue and the seagulls are singing and the sailboat ice-skates through the sea reminding me that… Continue Reading “Thanks, thanks and thanks”
Category: UncategorizedTags: ##portofinohotel, #bekind, #California, #grandparents, #gratitude, #hope, #redondobeach, #retiredteacher, #roomwithaview, #sealove, @retirement, love
Posted on January 10, 2023
by JANET L BARKER
Leave a Comment
Junky, junky, junky stringy stuff invades my thoughts, my days, like a wild river that steals innocent trees and summer’s lawn chairs. Minding my own business, doing my thing, wading through a different kind of Christmas, the volatility of a California New Year like… Continue Reading “The Silly String Saga”
Category: UncategorizedTags: #angels, #California, #education, #familystrife, #forgiveness, #grandparents, #healing, #hope, #loveeverymoment, #maryoliver, #powerofpoety, #retiredteacher, #teachers, #thebiggerpicture, @retirement, family, love
Posted on January 6, 2023
by JANET L BARKER
Leave a Comment
I’d like to credit and thank Royce Morales of Perfect Life Awakening for her recent blog and exactly perfect word that describes how I’m feeling these days. I suspect I’m not alone. First, the definition of limbo from Webster’s: 1. place or state of… Continue Reading “Limbo Land”
Category: UncategorizedTags: #calmbeforethestorm, #education, #grandparents, #gratitude, #hope, #lifeizgood, #loveeverymoment, #malibu, #perfectlifeawakening, #retiredteacher, #roycemorales, @retirement, love
Posted on January 1, 2023
by JANET L BARKER
3 Comments
Family. Family. Family. Mucho complicated. In a not so “It’s a Wonderful Life” way. Though, I wish everyone had a Donna Reed mom and a Jimmy Stewart dad. They knew what to say and when to say it. Those big-hearted Bailey’s could rally the… Continue Reading “Sitting at a bar in Barstow”
Category: UncategorizedTags: #Barstow, #calico, #California, #families, #grandparents, #hope, #loveeverymoment, #newyear, #retiredteacher, #teachers, #teaching, @retirement, love
Posted on October 25, 2022
by JANET L BARKER
Leave a Comment
Living my dream. Really. Truly. Like I have died and gone to heaven. In heaven. Me. Camping at a beautiful, gorgeous winery in San Miguel, CA, Four Sisters Winery, https://www.foursistersranch.com/owned by Serena and Michael, former doctors from Southern California who decided to switch it up. They have two-and-a-half… Continue Reading “By the Night of the Silvery Harvest Moon”
Category: UncategorizedTags: #camping, #foursisterswinery, #harvesthosts, #hope, #ilovewine, #loveeverymoment, #pasorobles, #retirededucator, #retiredteacher, #solocamping, #travelinggranny, #vweurovancamper, #whereeveryouareyouare, @retirement, love
Posted on October 10, 2022
by JANET L BARKER
Leave a Comment
So many times I wanted to write to you—to me—in my sweet-like-a-child attempt to capture the moment, the day, the weeks. But, alas, the day-to-day responsibilities of couch-surfing, of determiming where I am needed, where I need to go for a night or several,… Continue Reading “My new home”
Category: UncategorizedTags: #395, #beinthemoment, #chasingFall, #faith, #fall, #fall2022, #fallcolors, #grandma, #hope, #lifeizgood, #loveeverymoment, #nowisthetime, #retiredteacher, #vwcamper, love
Posted on January 11, 2021
by JANET L BARKER
Leave a Comment
What do I know? What can I possibly say that other people haven’t? Why do I need to say anything? I’m just a person with a blog, writing in a vacuum, next to a space heater, with the TV off, with the newspaper read,… Continue Reading “MARITAL DISSOLUTION: NOT AN OPTION”
Category: UncategorizedTags: chuckshummer, counseling, Covid, democrats, dianefienstein, donaldtrump, education, insurrection, Joebiden, kamalaharris, love, marriage, mikepence, mitchmconnell, nancypelosi, republicans, riots, teachers, teaching, Therapy, WashingtonDC
Posted on May 16, 2020
by JANET L BARKER
1 Comment
First, it’s my birthday. I’ve been on Planet Earth 64 years. I’m in the age bracket that some people think is OK if I die from Covid19. “You’ve lived your life,” they say, “let us live ours.” Yes, it is true I’ve lived more… Continue Reading “The Knotted Heart”
Category: UncategorizedTags: #babyboomer, #birthday, #boissetwine, #children, #covid19, #faith, #grandparents, #hope, #loveeverymoment, #parents, #seniorcitizens, #teachers, #teaching, #turning64, #writing, @retirement, love
This is me on Jet Blue flying over the Grand Canyon. It doesn’t look like it did three years ago on our Spring Break camping trip. It’s magnificent in a different, far-off way. To really appreciate the Canyon’s vast glory, you have to had… Continue Reading “The Adjustment Phase”
Category: UncategorizedTags: #beachlife, #blessings, #California, #daughters, #everymomentcounts, #giftfromthesea, #grandaughters, #gratitude, #hope, #jetblue, #newyork, #redondobeach, #teaching, family, love