Welcome to Collins Conundrum

I am a woman, duh, I have worked in women’s health for 29 years and I have had the privelege of talking to women in all different stages and I have been through a lot of stages myself. My blog has been a lot about my kids but there is another side. Believe it or […]

Wow, August is here already? Weren’t we just celebrating Memorial Day? Time marches on and seems to march on to quickly. It seems to me August is long and hot, summer coming to a close. It is like the hurdle to fall…kinda like March is before spring. We still have those feelings of wanting to […]

Funny how memories go Fuzzy at first and then you know. They shimmer like a bright star Always close and never to far. They let you peek at your former self Full of hopes & dreams that are somehow now on a shelf. They bring a smile to your face Memories of a special embrace […]

So as I sit here, the week is almost through. Where did the time go and not much did we do. The week seemed short and the time just flew. A time of respite but why did I feel so blue? So I posted earlier in the week about our staycation and that week is […]

When you have hearing loss you realize how much you took two working ears for granted. Loud places, noises, people who talk in a low voice, cause havoc with all your senses. You miss out on conversations, easily disoriented, sometimes vertigo and just increase in anticipating where you sit, situations and plain old anxiety. Even […]

So summer is here. Warm weather, picnics, cold beverages be it a sweet tea or a famous IPA beer, less clothes, longer days and nights filled with lightning bugs (yeah I said lightning bugs). Memories with families, stolen moments precious as they come, summer romances with sparks flying hot as the sun. This makes me […]

Happy Saturday. I don’t know about you guys, but this has been a long week! I so wanted to sleep in a bit but no, my smoke detectors had another idea. They have been chirping since 6 AM! And every kind of battery but a 9 volt in this house! That is a jump start […]

So another series of thoughts. My dad has been going through some health concerns, and I am not going to go over details at this time. But during these last couple of months, well they have been some of the most challenging in his life. During this time, I have seen his steady determination despite […]

So June has flown by! How does time go by so fast? It truly flies by in a blink of an eye. Hope you all had a good month and had a chance to stop the business of life to make a few memories and something made you smile. We survived graduation and now planning […]

Well time is marching on, and the year is almost half way through. Today we celebrate our dad’s. The dad’s who made us, cared for us. The men who step up and are a dad, dad’s of fur babies, step dad’s, grand dads and the list goes on. Us moms get so much attention for […]