writer, blogger, crafty woman
My husband got Lasik surgery last weekend and he hasn’t stopped bragging about how well he can see. He’s been blatantly driving his car and reading the newspaper, just to throw it in my face. It’s gotten so bad that I’m thinking of getting the surgery myself, even though I watched him get it […]
Show of hands: Who puts the shopping cart in the corral after loading bags into the car? And who thinks that spending 20 seconds to put it where it belongs is for suckers, so will spend 45-60 seconds leaving it right where it is, finding that perfect spot where it won’t drift or if […]
On Veteran’s Day, which was yesterday, people my age like to mention their fathers’ service. You’ll hear a lot of stories about where dads served during World War II. I found out that one friend’s father served in Her Majesty’s Royal Engineers and Mechanics Corp after escaping Hitler’s Germany with his Jewish bride. I’m […]
The parental guilt train never stops. My 20-year-old son is in his second year of college and although he can do his own laundry without having pink underwear, tie his own tie, go to dinner at the dean’s house without getting expelled, and ace tests and papers with ease, he apparently is a helpless […]
My son, the Photoshop prince, made this photo of me, if I indulged in stacks of doughnuts, mega-cheeseburgers and Pepsi. I appreciate the cleavage, but the core is definitely in bad shape. I’m typing this sitting on a core ball. You know what a core ball is? It’s a big ball, kind of like […]
I went to Cleveland (and boy are my arms tired. OK, that’s just wrong. Never mind). It was the first time in three years I had to / got to wear wintery-fally clothes. Florida is great, but there are some definite advantages to wearing clothes that cover up your skin, and not just if […]