“Quiet, quiet piggy.” This president has said and done so many vile, reprehensible things that I am trying to figure out why this particular one bothers me so much. I have a theory. This is a picture of me in high school. Cute right? I had Farrah Fawcett hair and a collarbone. There was a …
I added another pair of these sexy no slip socks to my growing collection this weekend. If you know, you know right? They usually come with a small box of rough tissues, and a bill severely out of proportion to the creature comforts provided for room and board at this “hotel.” I have been struggling …
Last night we watched the Lilith Fair documentary on Hulu. It was excellent. It really took me back to a time in my life when I was going through some really tough stuff and Sarah McLachlan may have single handedly got me through a lot of really bad days. I wasn’t feeling well today, so …
two. In late September I got a message from my sister. She had received an email from Senior. That’s one of the names we called my father because some of us could not bring ourselves to call him Dad. We sometimes called him by his initials but since my brother also had those initials …
one. When I was nine years old, on a day very near Christmas, my father loaded the last of his belongings into the car and gathered his children to say goodbye. I don’t recall if we stood stairstep in age order but most likely we did as pictures from that time often showed us oldest …
Has it really been two years since I posted here? Wow. I guess a global pandemic, an attack on the US Capital, a contested election, a racial reckoning, the loss of my beloved step father, the loss of so many American lives to disease, violence, terrorism and war, has had me a little distracted huh? …
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck it’s probably a duck. That’s a saying I use frequently. Often it’s in the context of telling my husband that if two or more people tell you something about yourself it’s probably true. For instance, I have had two different husbands tell me I …
A few days ago I got a renewal notice from Go Daddy that my domain was about to expire and since I’m not ready to give up on my dream of becoming a world famous blogger (insert sarcasm here) I had to decide if I wanted to keep this site up. I recently read a …
Dear 3:00 a.m. I can’t see you anymore, we need to break up. These nightly meetings are not working for me. Trust me it’s not you. You’re a good listener and always there for me. It’s me, I have issues. I know we’ve spent a lot of time together these last few weeks because of my arthritis pain. …
I haven’t updated my blog in forever. The last few months have just gotten away from me. I was sick over the summer with pneumonia. My mother had a major surgery and my dad was hospitalized for an illness. I made a major change in my work life. There is a new grandbaby on the way. These aren’t excuses. Life just …