Jeannie Caryn

I wrote this blog post a month ago and never returned to edit it - to fix it.   ‘Fixing my Life’ has kept me busy and I begin today, not sharing an apology for my delay and detour from my…

As Walt Disney said, "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."  I first read this quote when I was eight or nine years old in…

I started writing this blog before Mother's Day and somehow, the month is almost gone!  I have lost a couple weeks to having Covid as well as moving my daughter home for the summer from UGA, focusing on ending the…

Hey-- "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it" -- Ferris Beuller.

And how right Ferris was!  This movie came out in 1986, the year I graduated high school.   I…

As the bowl of chocolate chips might reveal, I am stressed.  There are many great coping mechanisms for this-- cleaning the house, doing yard work, playing with the dogs..and then the cats....and I have tried all of those things today…

I went to sleep very heavyhearted. I know better than to read any news before bedtime, but after a long drive to Athens, GA, and back, I found myself scrolling on Twitter.  We have problems here in the US, no…

I took this picture first thing this morning while the dogs roamed the grass, soaking up as much outside time as possible before the storms.  And I thought to myself, a fire is burning.  

Fire is brilliant, warm, necessary.  Fire…

Since the 1980s, I've had a crush on Bruce Willis.  And every Christmas, my kids and I have watched the Die Hard movies (Yes, that's a Christmas movie!)  But now, he has aphasia.  I am so sad for him and…

Day ONE 

Will Smith smacked Chris Rock in the face on Sunday at the Oscars.  I saw it on Twitter the next day. And I was like, I need someone to smack me in the face to wake me up…