Barbara Thompson

Saturday, October 21, 2023 The wind was blowing and the leaves were falling and we enjoyed a walk. Donna and Michael headed to Menomonie to see Murder on the Orient Express at the Mable Tainter Theater – that brings back memories from nearly 40 years ago of Keith playing quintet there. Forty years! Oh my […]

Friday, October 20, 2023 Michael and Keith were working today, so Donna and I busied ourselves chatting. It was another stunning day, so I (ME!) drove her around the rural roads by us in the convertible. We were very in sync with each other on what needed to be seen s-l-o-w-l-y (and by slowly, I

Thursday, October 19, 2023 Brett Goldstein plays Roy Kent on the TV show Ted Lasso. Roy is my favorite character. Well, I love the show and everyone is my favorite character. Brett was a standup comedian before becoming a comedy writer before becoming Roy Kent, and now that the show is over, he is doing

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 We got a letter from the city about a month ago that they were going to planting trees to replace the ash trees they took down…whenever that was. A few weeks ago, someone put a stake in our yard – not even close to where the tree had been. The big

Tuesday, October 17, 2023 We needed a direction to go to look for fall colors in the convertible on a beautiful, sunny 60-degree day. I had the brilliant idea of going to find this “house” in the town of Hudson. We first became aware of it from a realtor friend’s FB post in early summer.

Monday, October 16, 2023 I signed up for a media job today at a middle school. Our district cut the media specialist positions out of middle school a few years ago, because teaching kids how to research appropriately on the internet, how to write a research paper, and stuff like that was apparently not important

Sunday, October 15, 2023 Thank you to everyone who has reached out in the past week to offer information and support. It has been SO helpful to hear from real people about real lives being LIVED with diabetes. I think we can all agree that my “educator” was not the right fit for me and

Saturday, October 14, 2023 Bluegrass tonight! I feel like I can’t just say, “They were great!” because I say that a lot. But they were. They played a lot of original music, and I am not one to like something right off the bat. It often takes me awhile to warm up to new music,

Friday, October 13, 2023 Happy Birthday, Barbara!! (not me) I found an ad on the kitchen table some time fairly recently that must have come while we were traveling New England. Collide Dance Company was doing a dance interpretation of the Great Gatsby. I saw them do Romeo and Juliet in 2/2020 (remember that month?

Thursday, October 12, 2023 We went to see the musical with Bob Dylan music tonight. I didn’t think I knew much Bob Dylan music and I was right. I was familiar with one of the songs in the show. I guess it is better described as a play with music. I didn’t notice until the