Here we are - three generations of wild women!

Here are Mimi, Mama, and Lea getting ready to go for a walk in Abingdon.

Just don't say they aren't fun to watch!

Today the Phillies won 15-6 - after two disappointing losses Friday and Saturday and a lackluster starting performance by Cole Hamels.

Just loving baseball this year.

Reminding me a lot of 1993, God help us!

Happy Mother's Day to all...

...and to all a good day!

My mother is amazing - she does WAY more every day than I do and she's been retired for decades. This year she turns 80 and it reinforces to me even more that 80 is not nearly as old as I used to think it was - or, in fact, as it is these days. She volunteers at the hospital and for hospice patients, she works in the hospital's consignment shop, she participates in book groups, greenhouse maintenance, and marketing the wonderful place she and my dad live in. I'm in awe of her energy and feel inspired by it - yesterday after I visited her, I came home and started stripping wallpaper in my bathroom!

Happy Mother's Day to my mom, and to my daughter, who is celebrating her own Mother's Day. And to me - I have a whole day to contemplate my mega-redecorating projects and grade papers. But it's a beautiful day and I don't have any more five days weeks until September!

What can be better than May?

I know, I know, school ends in JUNE, but there is something I truly love about the month of May.

The anticipation of the end of school activities is sweet. The trees are continuing to burst forth with leaves and, in some cases, blossoms. One that stage is over, all we have is green, which is, of course, wonderful. But right now seeing all the dogwoods and other blooming trees is joyous to me.

As a Phillies fan, this May has begun with great promise after an uncharacteristically successful April. So far, the team is showing everyone that last year's finish was not a fluke. When you can be in first place with no Jimmy Rollins, a just-getting-on-track Shane Victorino, and a slow-starting Ryan Howard, you know you have a team you can get behind.

When I make that phone call to Comcast to start up the cable in Ocean City, I do a little dance of joy, mentally putting myself in that sweet little house watching baseball or even just the weather channel.

Finally, in May I can look forward every school day to walking down the stairs and out to my car at the end of the day and putting down the top on my convertible. It's like a baby vacation every afternoon.

Welcome to May and all its promises!