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 […]
Family Dinners Revisited
Gruel, Spam and beans again tonight? You’re neat! My husband was home this weekend, for the first time in two months. For two-and-a-half days, we were like a traditional family, two parents, three kids with a collection of broken electronic equipment lined up waiting to be fixed, a dog, dinners at the kitchen table […]
Can You Read This?
I took my son to Lens Crafters for an eye exam yesterday. His dog, Beaufort, chewed his glasses and he needed new ones. Oh, that Beaufort, he’s a playful little bugger. Unfortunately, the glasses were still on his face when Beaufort decided to use them for a chew toy, so he has a scratch […]
Reality Store: Shopping for a Real Life
In the 1960s, teenagers practiced being adults by wearing their parents’ clothes I worked at the Reality Store at Dunbar High School yesterday. What an opportunity. I relish being asked to drop an anvil of reality onto the heads of 15-year-olds. The Reality Store works like this: High school freshmen social studies students get […]
Crazy for Close-Out Sales
I don’t mean to alarm you but that top is only $7.99 I went to a going-out-of-business sale yesterday. Hoo, boy, I am definitely not woman enough to handle this. It was crazy! Dillard’s in the Creepy Empty Mall in Lexington is closing, bringing the number of stores in that mall to a whopping […]
I Survived the Drive
I think I’ve survived my driving tour of the American Southeast. Not certain yet; I still have a small headache and my lower back may never be the same. Plus there’s a new ridge on my forehead from miles of grumpy squinting that may be permanent. I gained five pounds from car food (aka […]