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 […]
just humor me
Flight Attendants Attend to Your Flights
Remember when I was little? When the ultimate dream of a little girl was to grow up to be a stewardess? I never flew anywhere when I was growing up. We took a vacation once, but we drove, since it was to southern Ohio, a three-hour drive from home. I didn’t take my first […]
America Has Voted
Q Tips and Float Boats
I have some observations about old people in Florida. I just got back from there and it’s very true what they say: There are a lot of old people in Florida. There are so many old people that even the old people complain about the old people. If you’re 70, you complain about the 80-year-old “Q […]
Brace Yourself
I may get my braces off early. This is excellent news, since I’m starting to have fantasies about running my tongue over my front teeth without getting it snagged in a piece of metal, meeting someone who looks at my eyes instead of my mouth, and not scaring young children. I have dreams at […]
The Big Yellow Bus
I believe the bus driver told the sixth graders that if they continued to make meth in the back of the bus, they’d get detention. I was in line at one of Lexington’s notoriously long red lights one day this week, had finished buffing my nails, balancing my checkbook and knitting a Kleenex box […]