Big road trip coming up for the Fitzpatricks. I’m driving to south Florida, armed with two teen-agers, a $60 tank of gas, a family sized box of Cheez-its and five books on tape. Mapquest tells me it’s 974.32 miles. My high school math tells me it’ll take me about 15 hours. My husband tells […]
Showing Off the House
I was doing pretty well being New Diane, especially selling our house this time around. But today Old Diane came back for a surprise visit. She didn’t bring any luggage, so she didn’t stay long, but for a little while today, there she was, in my car eating pudding with her hands, smelling like […]
The Hosts With the Most
My husband and I love to have people over to our house. I always thought we were pretty complementary to each other. (And complimentary, but that’s another story.) I serve appetizers, he pours wine. I make dinner, he pours more wine. I serve dinner, he pours wine. I clean up the kitchen, he goes […]
Another Day, Another Starbuck
This Starbucks obsession is getting out of hand. This morning my daughter and I made a quick pass into Starbucks before I took her to school. I had the entire medium (yes, I said medium – we’ll get to that later) skim latte gulped down before I even realized where I was. When Hillary […]
I’ll Give You Something to Cry About
I’m telling you, if I have to see Brett Favre cry on TV one more time, I’m going to have a minor breakdown. That’s got to be the saddest, most heart-wrenching thing since The Crying Indian on the Keep America Beautiful commercial. In all the time last week that I spent in airports, there […]
The Hubbard Eagle Has Landed
It’s like Christmas morning. I just got a big box of Hubbard newspapers in the mail from my friend Barb. She saves all the papers from our hometown and boxes them up every few months and sends them to me. I would call her to thank her, but I’m pretty sure she’s on a cruise […]