I’m ready for the big one. Tropical Storm Fay is coming and she’s headed for south Florida, specifically right to my back yard, where she will pick up the stone bench that sits next to my pool and she’ll throw that thing right at my bedroom window. So says my husband, who dismantled everything […]
Color My World, But Paint My House Beige
I’m entering Phase XVII of Moving into a House: Picking paint colors. Not my finest hour, by a long shot. I know that in a recent blog I wrote that my least favorite thing to do is to get estimates for work to be done in the house. Now that the estimates are coming […]
My Kid May Be ADD But You’re SOL
I’m trying to put the school calendar items on my iPod date book and I’m having a dickens of a time. For one thing, I’m not smart enough to figure out how schools do things now. For instance, I have no idea when or how my kids go to lunch – it’s so complicated […]
Affairs to Remember or Forget
Or special politicians: When you are in the time-out chair, there will be no talking, no TV, and no fathering illegitimate babies. I have one thing to say to Barack Obama today. If I hear one word about you having an affair – one word, mister – I’m going to come up there and smack you […]
How to Pick a Contractor
If I had to make a list of things I don’t like about my job as a . . . – whatever I am, it would not include scrubbing toilets, weeding, or disposing of the possums that our dog kills in the back yard. My top three hateful things about my life are these: […]
The Not-So-Secret Life of Bees
Does anyone have an epi-pen? I’m happy to report that as of this afternoon, our house is bee-free. In a relatively short period of time, they came, they saw a tiny hole in the plaster of a column in the front of our house, they conquered the column, they got euthanized for $250. As […]