A Garden in Spite of Itself, Part 2: All the Pretty Flowers
My mother is an amazing gardener. Her yard is always a lush, flourishing mass of foliage and blooming things and trees that attracts all manner of wildlife from butterflies to bluebirds to...
View ArticleThere’s Still Sand in My Shoes: Things People Say When They Get Back from...
What they say: What they’re thinking: “We had a lovely time at the beach.” “It was freakin’ awesome.” “But it’s always good to come home.” “We should live there!” “I feel so relaxed and...
View ArticleWere the Mayans Right? Pope Warns of Dire Threat to the Future of Humanity
Thank goodness for the pope! He’s looking out for us. Recently, Pope Benedict XVI spoke to Vatican diplomats from almost 180 different countries in an effort to rally the faithful to Church doctrine...
View Article46 and Fogged
via Zazzle.com Lately I’ve been losing my mind. It’s been a gradual process, but one I can’t deny anymore. Take yesterday. I was in the middle of a full-blown house-cleaning frenzy when I glanced at...
View ArticleMother 1966
It was 1966. Dr. Zhivago was raking it in at the box office, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass put 4 albums on Billboards top 10 and troll dolls were so popular that even the first lady, Lady Bird...
View ArticleThings I Do that Tick Me Off
I hate it when I … … mop the floor. It makes it rain. … do everything on my To-do list. It sets my expectations unreasonably high. … stare into the bathroom mirror and try to cut my own hair. It’s much...
View ArticleWill You Take a Quarter for This?
“That’s the meaning of life isn’t it? Trying to find a place for your stuff… That’s all your house is. It’s a pile of stuff with a cover on it.” “Have you noticed that everybody else’s stuff is shit...
View ArticleBugged!
Not the cicada in question. This one had the courtesy not to die on my back deck at the crack of dawn. At 5:00 this morning, a cicada dying on our back deck woke me from a deep, lovely sleep. Or to be...
View ArticleWorrywart
I was born without a sense of humor. I am, however, very high-strung. Not a good combination. A few years ago, I decided that the key to managing stress in my life was humor. I just had to learn how to...
View ArticleWaiting
The only good waiting room is an empty one. I am constitutionally disinclined to wait gracefully. Four of my least favorite adjectives describe why. Waiting is most often passive, public, unpredictable...
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