I’m happy to announce that yoga and I are back together again after a long break. He’s so much better looking than I, and there’s no explanation as to why he continues to take me back. It must be my nice personality. My relationship with yoga is like one of those on-again off-again doomed relationships. We […]
Lather, Rinse, Repeat — and Repeat and Repeat
I have a new temporary substitute hair stylist who is trying to convince me that I shouldn’t wash my hair every day. This is like telling a 58-year-old woman that she should give up a lifetime addiction to mayonnaise and switch to gluten-free vegan soy Tofu Whip. Don’t even. Temporary Substitute Hair Stylist says daily […]
Finishing Unfinished Business in Not in My Wheelhouse
I was standing in my sewing room, staring at a half-finished quilted mixer cover that I was making for my mother-in-law for a Christmas gift when my husband walked in and asked me what I was doing. “I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to get this gift for your mom finished in time […]
2016 Was a Very Adequate Year for a Number of Reasons
Ah, 2016. The year you discovered you had nuts because you got kicked in them. And because it ended with an event that had the entire U. S. of A. angry and frustrated, even those people whose wildest dreams had come true, it’s hard to remember anything good that came out of the past 12 […]
Ups and Downs With Eyebrows
First let me start out by saying I do appreciate certain things about my eyebrows. Also my husband says if I write another complainy blog post I’ll be firmly in Andy Rooney territory. And even that crankypants didn’t write about his eyebrows, as wiry and renegade as they were. So, starting on a positive note, […]
Getting Real With the Vacation Spa
Once again I allowed my unrealistic expectations to get the best of me. On a cruise with three other women, I thought going to the on-ship spa and salon would be like a scene from a 1940s movie. You know, the one where the rich socialite is being pampered in a spa while talking with her girlfriends on […]