My friend Lynn put a question to my “Home Sweet Homes” readers and it was this: What can I do to repurpose old trophies? The silence was deafening. Except for the screams coming from the DIY no-waste gods, who had met their match in Lynn and her closetful of soccer participation trophies. I’d heard of […]
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Advanced Facebook for Old People: 2014 Edition
On its birthday today, things over at Facebook are changing rapidly, and the 10-year-old monster is almost unrecognizable to what was first opened up to old people in 2007. Remember Shrute Bucks? Pieces of Flair? Remember pre-set status updates? “Diane is at home.” “Diane is at work. When we were finally secure enough to post […]
About as Funny as a Root Canal
Throughout my adult life I’ve lived a charmed existence when it comes to dental work. When I was in my 20s I had a few fillings. In my 30s I had a crown, a root canal and a wisdom teeth extraction. In my 40s I had a second crown and adult braces. None of […]
Three Surprising Reasons Why I’m Happy in the City
Don’t be surprised. I’m more adaptable and more cheerfully resigned – not to mention adventurous – than the average small town suburban girl. I take after my mother. I recently described my mom as being a survivor, but “not the pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-determined survivor, but more of a hunker-down-brace-yourself-have-a-cigarette-and-wait-out-the-storm survivor.” My mom also always looked at the […]
My Haunted House, Featuring The Little Indian Boy
I’ve lived in lots of different kinds of houses – nearly everything except a trailer and a castle – but I bet you didn’t know that I lived in a haunted house, too. I don’t actually believe it was haunted, but it had the reputation in the neighborhood. So we got all the benefits […]
Answering to a Hire Authority
As a self-appointed queen of moving, I know all the tricks. What I haven’t experienced in my own eventful 16+ moves, I heard and read about other people’s moving stories. I’ve read up on and researched how to label your moving boxes, how to sell your house on your own, how to pack weirdly shaped […]