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My mother is 96 years old, just survived abdominal surgery, is home and doing great.

I have a friend who sold all of her belongings including her house and is a week into touring the world starting with walking the  Camino de Santiago http://www.followthecamino.com/ trail in Spain.

I have two friends who breed, raise, and train Arabian horses. 

I have one brother. He is retired from Ford Motor Company and travels in an RV from Michigan out west and to Florida.

I  planted onions and shallots last week.

I am going to schedule a stem cell transplant soon and maybe I will be able to walk without pain again.

I have two best friends I have had for over 40 years. They are two men who have been partnered for 50+ years.

Movies are boring.

I always am reading a book.

Leaving a client's house in New Orleans

I rode motorcycles all my life and only stopped when walking got difficult.

My first car was a 1953 Mercury, red over black.

I first noticed my peripheral neuropathy in 1995. Thought I had a ping pong ball in my shoe. Boy, was I wrong.

Walking around on the Mt Rainier trail

I ran away from home for an entire year to climb mountains.

I have climbed 14 of the 14ers in Colorado, Mt Rainier, Half Dome and El Cap. Took me several years.

Skiing  or I should say, falling in A Basin, 

I was a skier mostly in Michigan where I grew up and then in Colorado. I wasn’t very good, but still loved it.

I left school in January 1969 in Chicago and drove straight south to New Orleans where it was warm. I had a drink while listening to a live jazz band on Easter Sunday morning in the French Quarter, found I could take my drink with me and walk around with it. I didn’t move until a couple of years ago.

Scootering in Rocky Mountain National Park

While I love my scooter because I can’t get anywhere without it, I hate the idea that I need it.

What about you?