Category Archives: Humor
Sweetness
This weekend I attended the birthday party of my youngest grandnephew. He is two. I won’t post a photo, because he’s not my kid, but let me assure you that he is right up there with the most adorable kids in the universe. And he is SO smart. He knows all his colors (The balloon …
Halloween Guilt: How I Scared The Crap Out Of An Eight-Year-Old
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It was unintentional. But I should have known better. It was the Fall of 1974. I was a senior in college and doing my student teaching in Puerto Rico. (Yeah, yeah. You’re doing the math and figuring out that I was 23. So I took a few extra years in college. …
I Never Imagined
Recently I overheard two women discussing how their lives turned out so differently from what they had imagined. It got me to thinking about how that might be true for me too. Only when I really thought about it, I could not claim my life was different from what I had pictured, because I realized …
Excitement At The Car Show
(Here’s an oldie while I continue to work on a post that is refusing to come together….) *** MY DAY OFF You know what’s almost as much fun as doing what you love to do? Doing what your spouse loves to do. Just kidding. Doing what my husband likes to do is usually awful. But …
Of Tom Mix And Clam Chowder
I’m thinking about my father this weekend. He would have been 94 on Saturday. He died 6 years ago and I miss him every day. But I remember him not with sorrow but with joy and laughter. Here’s a post I wrote four years ago, in honor of his 90th. ** Today would have been …
Kindness
I was mean yesterday. Not mean like making someone cry, or repeating malicious gossip, or (worst of all) slapping the dog. Not mean mean. Just a little mean. I was rude on the phone. I heard from my doctor’s office that Medicare had my coverage screwed up. This was the first time I have used …
Bean Brain
Late in the planting season, after the rest of the garden was in, my husband regretted that he had not planted any beans. The raised beds were all full, but we had some whiskey barrels that we usually filled with herbs and flowers. We never planted beans in barrels before, but it was worth a …
Balancing Act
This week, I had my usual lunch with Mom, but with an added treat. Both sisters joined us and we all had a fabulous visit. We usually space out our visits on different days, so my mother can have lots of company, but being together this week was a treat for Mom too. She always …
Like Sands Through The Hourglass…
It was totally not my fault. My sweet great aunties bear all the blame. I was fifteen years old when my parents moved crosstown and I changed high schools. It was just under 2 miles from our new house to the school, so by a distance of about one block I did not qualify for …
Letting Go
In April, I retired. Six weeks later, I un-retired. Well, not really. Here’s what happened. I worked for the last ten years as the Controller of a large(ish) mail-order and online business. It was a terrific job, especially after fifteen years at an exciting but extremely stressful gigantic media organization. For ten years, I had …
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