Archive for May, 2011

SADHVI SHARES SOME OF HER SPRINGTIME MOMENTS

Saturday, May 14th, 2011

SADHVI

Well, I almost stopped doing this blog since some of my friends seemed to be concerned about me after my last posts. For those friends who don’t know it, I have a very quirky sense of humor. I think it was developed from all those winters that I spent growing up in Cleveland, Ohio. At any rate, I didn’t realize that ending a post with Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” would give anyone cause for concern until I mentioned the weird reactions I was getting to a long-time friend who happens to be from Cleveland too. She said she read my post, and as usual, simply enjoyed hearing from me. However, she did say that having that Pink Floyd song might give someone the impression that I was drifting off into a suicidal binge – OMG!

I’ve been doing a post a week for the last couple of years, so if it sounds like I am going off into the deep end, in reality, I am not: I am simply sharing something. Consider these posts a little window into my reality, and simply enjoy.

There are just so many things that are in bloom right now. I love my flowers, and I love how they photograph.

Here are a few that lit up my world this past week:

CORNFLOWER

AN ORIENTAL POPPY

CALIFORNIA POPPIES

PEONY

I also like to bake, and so here’s what I made this past week for my husband, who absolutely loves rhubarb. This tart is made from the first batch of rhubarb from my garden. And as usual, it was delicious! I don’t even like rhubarb but I squealed when I my first taste of this.

SADHVI'S SWISS RHUBARB TART

I shared this secret and easy recipe for this before, so I have not re-posted it. Just enter it in the search box at the top to get it from the archives. It is timeless and always good.

What else? I like to take our dog, Bello, for an evening walk on the trails nearby our house. It is so quiet, and we usually don’t run into anyone, so it is especially nice. I wanted to share a picture of the evening light that makes those walks magic for me.

THE LIGHT IN THE FOREST

So whatever your reality is, I invite you to share yours with me, or simply enjoy mine!

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Mother’s Day

Monday, May 9th, 2011

Jane

My mother always said she hated Mother’s Day. Like a few other women over 50, members of the baby boomer generation, I grew up in a household where Mother’s Day was looked down upon as something artificial, created by marketers in order to sell products. So, I believed that when/if I had kids, I would probably continue to look down my nose at Mother’s Day—and would say to my kids the kind of thing my mother used to say to me: “Please don’t give me anything on Mother’s Day. Every day of the year is Mother’s Day for me. You certainly don’t have to prove your love for me on some artificially-selected day!”

When our first child was born, and my first official Mother’s Day rolled around, I was surprised to see how happy I was to get flowers from my husband. But my real change of heart didn’t happen until those years when my children’s pre-school teachers (bless their wonderful hearts) started helping my children to create little Mother’s Day presents. I remember when my oldest daughter brought home her first creation: a big flower made out of paper that opened up to reveal all kinds of nice words about mothers. (The poems were furnished by the teacher, but the flower itself was cut out by my daughter.) I found myself having to sit down—because I was crying! I couldn’t believe it: I was a complete sap! The marketers had won!

Give Mom the gift of love with a photo book filled with loved ones and cherished memories. (more…)

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Sadhvi Sez: Being Terminated, Hurray for ExxonMobil, and some Pink Floyd

Friday, May 6th, 2011

SADHVI

Well, I want to thank all of our readers and fans who clicked on the Google Adsense ads to the left side of our site. It did help us out with a penny a click. And we got our first check for $100 recently, which means 10,000 of you clicked on one of those ridiculous ads that seemed to have nothing to do with our site. If you notice, there is now a blank space where those ads used to be. It seems that we have been terminated since someone clicked too often on those ads, according to the terms that we agreed to. I was a bit surprised & embarrassed to get that email notification from Google, but after a short while, I realized that whoever was the guilty party was only supporting us.

What else? Well, according to the May 16, 2011 issue of TIME magazine (did you know they date their magazine ahead?) which I subscribe to and get in my mailbox located at the end of my driveway, and actually sit down to read,

69% is the “increase in ExxonMobil’s first-quarter earnings from the same period last year; the oil-and-gas giant made almost $11 billion, marking one of its most profitable quarters ever”.

With gas prices going up weekly during the last couple of months based on whatever fear-based shortage is being fabricated, I was deeply saddened by the greed of, well, whoever owns ExxonMobil – who is that? Mr. Rogers? Big Bird? Wall Street?

Maybe I really should consider getting some sort of pill that will make me feel comfortably numb. Some of my closest friends have told me that I am bi-polar, and it’s just a sickness that can be fixed with a pill. Which makes the following YouTube video of one of my favorite bands, Pink Floyd, performing “Comfortably Numb” rather appropriate. Enjoy!

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On Being a Woman Over 50 and Traveling Too Much

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

: Jane

I used to like to travel by myself for work. I remember a time, when our 4 kids were little, that I looked forward with huge excitement to the occasional business trip, knowing that I would get to watch a movie on the hotel TV, or stay up all night reading if I felt like it–or even take a midnight dip in the pool!

I’ve been doing a lot of traveling for work lately, and, although I still enjoy watching a movie in my hotel room, I’m pretty much over the rest of it. I dread packing and unpacking. I don’t like forgetting to bring toothpaste and having to go downstairs to buy some.

I don’t mind listening to good speakers or participating in helpful workshops, but I can really do without the “networking.” I’ve never really enjoyed talking to strange people about whatever mess we can think up to talk about, but I’ve about gotten to the point where I can’t even fake it any more. And I hate hotel breakfast buffets, full of cold cereal, fake waffles, and tasteless bagels.

Even the hotel lobbies depress me–with their aging carpets and their late-night bars full of conventioneers yukking it up and drinking too much.

They remind me of airports, with their crowds of people walking around, passing each other, all of them unfamiliar, except that I like people-watching in airports, and it’s no fun in the lobby of a Sheraton. There’s something about staying in a big hotel that gives me the same kind of limbo feeling I felt entering John F. Kennedy High School in the tenth grade–the new kid on the block, newly home to the States from our last tour of duty in Germany.

I’m a fish out of water.

I miss my husband. I miss my kids. I miss my friends. I miss my dogs.

I want to be back home, in my own bed, with my own pillow, and with my clock radio scheduled to wake me up to the sound of NPR, instead of a automated wake-up call.

I guess I’m just too damn old for this!

Tags: aging, baby boomers, business travel, hotels, women over 50
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