adventure Archives - Linda Gray Sexton

Model Trains…one piece at a time.

By Linda Gray Sexton | February 13, 2019 |

My husband retired last Friday and I am worried. While I celebrate his freedom from a job of which he was truly tired, I am also concerned about what he will now do with his time, as well as the loss of his income. How will the family budget survive? How will he survive psychologically? …

Let Your Own Sun Shine

By Linda Gray Sexton | January 13, 2016 |

Look back over 2015 and what do you see? A string of experiences and dilemmas to which you responded, reacted, or resolved. Sometimes for the better, and sometimes for the worse. The “worse” is what helps us formulate our “New Year’s Resolutions.” I do it just about every year: when I was sixteen, I resolved…

FRIENDS ARE THE ANCHOR IN HALF MOON BAY

By Linda Gray Sexton | July 22, 2015 |

In 1989, my husband and I moved from the New York suburbs to those in the Bay Area south of San Francisco. For me, thirty-six years of “home” had been on the East Coast–but the lure of a new and lucrative job beckoned him. He was ambitious. I was reluctant. Where would you like to…

MARGARITAS, FIRE ALARMS, SHIPS, AND SHOWS!

By Linda Gray Sexton | July 8, 2015 |

A road trip! A road trip! Who doesn’t love a road trip! While mine down to Southern California thirteen days ago wasn’t exactly filled with Jack Kerouac moments, it was nevertheless an exhilarating break from the pressures of daily life about which I wrote in my previous newsletter. The Thursday before last, I went south,…

THE RISK IT TAKES TO BLOSSOM

By Linda Gray Sexton | May 27, 2015 |

At some point in our lives, all of us feel insecure—whether because we are rejected by someone we love, or because we make a hash of a good career opportunity, or because we choose poorly and discover ourselves in a situation in which we do not want to be, or simply because we allow ourselves…

WRAPPING IT UP!

By Linda Gray Sexton | January 7, 2015 |

At this time of year most of us are buying and wrapping multiple gifts. We are focused on all the happiness that the season can bring, and not much on its complications. We plan how to decorate our homes and our trees and what will accompany the roast beef for Christmas dinner. We don’t often…