I’ve decided that dog-sitting is the perfect thing for a person without a dog to do. It’s also a fine thing for a person with a dog, too, but only because dogs are concurrent: If you have one dog and you dog-sit another dog, your work doesn’t double. It’s like serving two jail terms […]
Grace
Excuse Me, But Your Perfume is Starting to Smell
I was walking around Sephora a couple nights ago, part of the shopping marathon that has started with a bang, now that my mother-in-law is here and we’ve all stopped coughing long enough to park the car at the mall. I mistakenly sprayed on some perfume. It was pretty much downhill from there. I’m […]
Grace the Wonder(ful) Dog
Even Grace could find the humor in wearing a red yarmulke on Christmas. I miss my dog, Gracie, so much. She’s been gone for a little over 24 hours and I already miss her. We had her for nine years, about half of my life as a stay-at-home mom. I’m not one of those […]
Possum Stew
Is it dead? Is it washable? I entered today thinking I would have nothing to write about. It’s not like my life is all that exciting. On my list of things to do today were: Grocery shop, knit with my knitter friends Laura and Elise, do laundry, write an article about Mother’s Day breakfasts, pick […]