Blessings 7-15-09

1. It's true that you don't forget how to ride a bike.

2. The little dingie-bell I installed on my bike handlebars. The merry "ch-ching" sound brings me back to the sidewalks of Elmhurst, Ill., where I first learned to ride a two-wheeler.

3. Getting up earlier. As I feel more relaxed with each vacation day, I sleep better and wake up at normal times.

4. Downloading The Dead Weather's first album, Horehound, from iTunes. Anticipating seeing them in Boston this weekend.

5. Being told by a passerby as I chatted with her from our front porch yesterday that I couldn't possibly be old enough to have a child in college. Bless her!

*Thanks, Dad, for the good-skin gene.*