As you read this (who is reading this anyway? Barbara, is that you? Chuck? Molly? Debby? Are you there?) I’m in New York with the Dunbar Band traipsing around the Big Apple with my mother-in-law and a bunch of other bandies. We’ve been doing touristy things since we left Lexington on Monday and rode […]
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Only in Sparta
Under the heading of: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up or Only in New Jersey, comes this police brief from The Sparta Independent: Sparta — Sparta police reported last week that a 15-year-old Sparta High School sophomore donned a mask from the movie “Scream” and burst into Spanish teacher Kelly Uschnig’s classroom last Tuesday around 2 p.m., spraying […]
Fun With Mug Shots
How embarrassing for Nick Nolte. That Hawaiian shirt is SO last year. In my quest to get my son a driver’s license, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the DMV. For unexplained reasons, there are no magazines in the DMV waiting room. You’re not allowed to use your cell phone, you’re not […]
KFC and the C Stands for Cool
Just when I thought I had life all figured out, a fast food chicken related dilemma has reared its scrawny head. It seems that KFC – aka Kentucky Fried Chicken, aka arch enemy of animal rights organizations, aka sellers of bucket-o-heart disease, aka the Thing That Makes Kentucky Marginally Better Known Than Tennessee – […]
I Love Mail
I don’t admit this to too many people, but if you know me at all it won’t surprise you: The biggest highlight of my day is going to the mailbox to get the mail. And I’m talking about days when I go out to a real restaurant for lunch, get a new pair of […]
Crazy Day at the Mart
I can’t believe it, but it was Crazy Day at Walmart again yesterday. It seems like just a week or so ago, it was Crazy Day. I remember it because it was the day some old guy stopped in the middle of the baking supplies aisle and stooped down to tie his shoe and […]