There are many things in this life that come in pairs: socks, shoes, and gloves just to mention a few, and of course twins. There are even different kinds of twins. We have maternal, fraternal, and identical. There is however one group of twins that is often overlooked, and that is the Doppelganger. Read on..

As we all know Thomas invented the light bulb, and various other items that we still use today. In our previous post, When Your Focus is Out of Focus, I shared my tendency to zone out and lose myself in distracting thoughts. Well, I'm pleased to inform you that when my mind starts to wander, I often channel Thomas Edison, so I have a few inventions of my own that I would like to share with you. I just hope they don't go the way of things like the remote control headband, the butter stick, (this is like chap stick but it is butter instead), and the phone fingers. These…

Big, Middle and Little Sis all wear glasses and so regularly have their visual focus checked and corrected as need be. But that is not what we had in mind to talk about when we chose “focus” as our word of the month for October. Rather we were thinking about where we choose to spend our time and attention day to day and how to make sure we’re clearly focused on the right things. Would You Repeat That Please? By Little Sis I love to sleep, and you would think that after a long at day work, sleeping would be a welcome relief. I don’t consider myself an insomniac, but…

Everyday life offers a myriad of potential challenges. It also offers a myriad of opportunities for humor and laughter. The Sisterhood can speak to both with a measure of authority. We have after all, a combined 195 years of experience on this earth. Collectively, we prefer to dwell on the funny side of life (hence the above picture of Little Sis laughing as she wrote her contribution to this post.) I mean really, if you can’t laugh at yourself, life must be very dull indeed. So it is with great humility and perhaps a splash of laughter, we offer our thoughts on what we refer to as “Our Most Embarrassing…

Our word of the month for September is PERSEVERANCE and all three sisters have vivid examples of their perseverance in the face of extreme challenges. Well, perhaps not extreme, but challenges nonetheless. What follows is a detailed and graphic account of each sister's very real struggle to overcome adversity.

As a kid I loved watching the Jetsons cartoon. I loved the antics of the Jetson family and was fascinated by the flying cars, the jet packs and of course Rosie the family robot. While it was fun to watch, I never dreamed that we would have anything like the futuristic Jetsons technology in our household, but I was wrong. Enter Bartolio Sparkles. Who or what is Bartolio Sparkles you might ask? Well, it is the name our grandchildren gave to our new robot vacuum. How and why I became the owner of a robot vacuum and why I feel the need to write about it are questions you may…

Just a quick comment on the above picture. We are from left to right Big Sis’ whose chubby cheeks make her look like a 10 year old child bride, Middle Sis who begs the question “Was she adopted?” and Little Sis who looks adorable but inexplicably somewhat angry. Now for our story. In a few short months, (11 to be exact) Big Sis and her hubs will celebrate 50 years of wedded bliss. Yes, three kids, five grandchildren and lots of adventures later, they are still together. That is quite an accomplishment and it begs the obvious question…..where has the time gone? Cue the soft music, and rewind back in…

When Middle and Little Sis both revealed that they were alarm-o-phobic, that is terrified of setting off their house alarm, Big Sis felt she had to intervene. As the older wiser sister, she thought it would be therapeutic for them to work through their alarm-o-phobia by writing about it, in the hope that they could move on with their lives and stop cowering at the front door as they prepare to turn off their house alarm.

I remember every September in grade school being asked to write about what I did on my summer vacation. Back in those days, summer vacation was usually spent playing with neighborhood kids, the odd trip to the outdoor community swimming pool or to get ice cream and perhaps a trip to visit out of town relatives. Nothing too remarkable to report to your teachers and classmates. Fast forward to the summer of 2021, which has brought a series of events that has made this summer something to write about, but for all the wrong reasons. Ongoing COVID, blistering heat and no rain leading to forest fires in every direction and…