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Hurricane Evacuations
*** I drove to work this morning thinking of all the people who will be affected by Hurricane Florence on the East Coast as the storm is approaching. My family and I have been evacuated three times by hurricanes from the Outer Banks on vacations, so we are no strangers to the impending damage storms of this size can wreak on coastline towns, and even on inland towns. The first time we were evacuated, I had a one-year-old little boy, and we had spent only one night in the vacation home. The warnings grew dim, and we left early the next morning. We had no hurricane insurance, so we lost…
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Shoulda Woulda Coulda — Daily Prompt
Today’s WordPress Daily Prompt entitled Shoulda Woulda Coulda asks us to tell about something you should do…but don’t. * * * So…here goes…complete honesty… I was going to write this post today and call it something else, but then I saw the Daily Post prompt, and I knew it was perfect for me. What I should do, but don’t do, is stop worrying about aging. Seriously. I think about it every day. It can often consume me. I’m not a fan of getting older, and the thought of the number 50 is just daunting. It’s two and a half years away for me, but I’m not at all enamored with…