How can I possibly write something funny about this presidential campaign? It’s Election Day and I’m more nervous than when I started my job as a reporter at the Coshocton Tribune, the only time in my life that I was too nervous to eat. My mom took me to dinner after helping me move into […]
Scare Me Please, I’ve Paid for It
Halloween is over and it just occurred to me that we didn’t make a trip to a haunted house, haunted forest walk, haunted hayride, or haunted anything for that matter. Whassup with that? Going to a haunted something is part of having teen-agers. God, I hope my kids didn’t turn 20 when I wasn’t looking […]
Halloweeners and Bums
Halloween is today. Having kids who are too old to trick-or-treat sucks. This isn’t fun at all. It’s not even just that my kids are too old to fit into the purple felt Beast costume and wouldn’t wear it even if they were midgets, but I’m old, too, now. And too lazy to go to […]
Road Trip Food for Thought
I went on another road trip last weekend, spent a lot of time in the car, so just like professional comedians who overuse their experiences on airplanes and in airports because that’s how they spend the majority of their time, a housewife blogger will tell you all about her car trip to Tallahassee. The trip […]
An Addiction to the News
I am hopelessly addicted to 24-hour news. I know, I know, I’ve written about this before in a previous blog, but it’s an addiction, what do you expect? It’s all I want to talk about. A year ago I didn’t even know who Keith Olbermann was. Now I want to sit down with him at […]
My Dog and Her Walks
It’s getting to be where I hate to walk our dog. Because we have no back yard – and when I say ‘no back yard,’ I don’t mean just a tiny patch of grass or not a big back yard or less than a half acre; I mean no back yard. Within our back fence […]