Category Archives: Humor
Moving On
Do you ever find yourself in this situation? … (Oh, please say you do… I do not want to feel like the weirdest person in the room) … You are getting a bit low on some product – it could be toothpaste or hair spray or even salad dressing, so the next time you are …
Seasonal Envy
Summer’s here – or just about. I wore my parka to walk the dog this morning. Tomorrow is supposed to hit 90. In celebration of almost summer – here’s a post from five years ago. # TAKING MY OWN ADVICE It’s time. Time to go to the beach. In my bathing suit. Saturday was …
Happily Taxed
No one likes to pay taxes. Holy cow, my husband and I say a lot worse that “holy cow” every Spring. And now of course, it’s nearly summer and that can mean only one thing – semi-annual property tax time. Our local government likes to make me cry not once, but twice, a year. But …
The Peanuts Perspective
When I was a teenager, full of morose and moronic but perfectly normal teenage angst, there was one thing I completely loved Peanuts. Not the in-the-ground Jimmy Carter kind. (Although I did love them and still do.) The comic strip. I had books and books of Peanuts strips, and often clipped the big Sunday color …
Stop Doing That
All through our lives, we have to do stuff we really don’t want to do. We all pay bills and taxes, and that really sucks. I wish my Grandma was here with her little change purse, giving me a quarter right now. We all obey laws – stopping at red lights and picking up dog …
Mom: All Attitude
When people talk about “Attitude.” they are usually referring to a bad one. I know what that means. I was told often enough that I had a “Bad Attitude.” Usually by a boss because I showed a lack of tolerance for a stupid decision. But that was early in my career, and it was quite …
Hang Up
With this blogging year being all about Kindness, I am reading back on my posts and seeing that perhaps I am just a little too-good-to-be-true. I sound maybe like if Mother Teresa and Gandhi had a child. Only better. With that, I thought I would post a blog I wrote about six years ago. Where …
Wearing It
Last night, just as we were falling asleep, my husband drowsily remembered a conversation he had earlier in the day. “Oh,” he murmured, “I talked to that guy from the committee.” “Which guy?” I asked. “You know… That guy… He wears a limp.” My husband was only semi-conscious and that probably explains his weird phrasing. …
Maybe I Like Sour Grapes
When I was in college, I entered a university-sponsored short story contest. My story was a variation on the old Aesop’s fable “The Grasshopper and The Ant.” By the way, I can still recite several lines from the Jean De La Fontaine poetic version that I was required to recite in high school – I …
There’s No Such Thing
A few days ago, I was waiting in line at the coffee shop. The guy in front of me was with his wife, and they were quietly standing there – just another anonymous couple. Another man walked in, and gave the guy in front of me a tap on the sleeve. “Hey, big guy!” he …
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