Today I am getting a new car.  It's not that my current car is dying,  it's just on a slow trajectory to the boneyard.

Last night I cleaned my car out, removing everything, preparing for our final goodbye.  I found items in the bottom of seat pockets that had over… Read full post »

My coworker took her first child to college, a daughter that I have always thought was spoiled beyond measure and ran roughshod over her mother in all ways.  She was not one for manners.  If I ever answered the phone, her tone was indignant and insulting, "is my mother there."  Never,… Read full post »

My first cousin has a son with Prader Willi Syndrome.  I am sure most of you have not heard of this, I had not heard of it until he was diagnosed.  Since then, I have seen a documentary on television about it and my cousin and his wife have been fighting… Read full post »

I have no children on this earth.  I have nieces and nephews that I love like they were my own.  If they were to die, the grief would cut deep.  I am sure not as deep as the grief their parents would feel.  I will never know what that is like,… Read full post »

Just in time for the holidays...my niece says this is the "crack of desserts".  She has to make it during the summer to tide her over to the holidays.  Using the cake mix reminds me of the campfire pineapple upside down cake in foil I made as a little girl… Read full post »

I know it is.  It's the uniform that brings different reactions.  And right now, you're not liking it.  Right now, it smacks of law and fear.  Right now, it's the last thing you want to see.  So you turn your face from it and try to hide in the magazine rack. … Read full post »

My parents are on a two week vacation and I have volunteered to housesit.  They want to pay me.  I said "are you kidding?  I'm going to rip up that check if you leave it."  They insisted and I had to remind them of when they took care of my cats… Read full post »

I held off getting an ipod for so long.  Really, who needed it?  I have my mix tapes, man, I have CD's.  I even have LP's somewhere, but no record player.  I held off for the same reason I held off getting "online" ten or so years ago..."I'll never leave the… Read full post »

After skulking around the board here for a month, I have concluded the following:

10.  When people post a "10 Things" list or anything WITH PICS! (especially animals), they will most likely get read...kind of like Cosmo quizzes.

9.   If I want to be lambasted, I will announce that I… Read full post »

I was a leader when I was a kid.  In kindergarten, I decided what our little group would play at recess (horses), and I was the lead horse.  The girls were wild mustangs, the boys cowboys.  We would kick their shins with our patent leathers and if any boy could catch… Read full post »

The hair's been cut.  6 inches gone.  This is something you can't fix if you have buyer's remorse. And I think I do.

I did my diligence in finding pictures that would explain what I felt would be good.  My stylist took a look at them and said she knew exactly… Read full post »

I have spent the last 2 hours looking thru 34 Google search pages for the haircut I envision in my head.  I have had my hair long for most of my life, with a few forays into the short world.  It has been long for the past 10 years and the… Read full post »

When I first saw the previews for Time Traveler's wife, I decided there was no way I was going to see that movie.  Rachel McAdam's character, so longingly loving him as he disappears into the ether, standing by him faithfully when he's not there, waiting for his return, whenever that should… Read full post »

When the last in my card playing circle of four friends turned 50, we had a discussion:  how does she feel now that she is 50?  She said she actually cried.  This I was surprised by as she is a very together, tough lady, always on the go and looking ahead. … Read full post »

Sometimes life is a Seinfeld episode.  You find yourself in situations where you look around like Martin Short's character Nathan Thurm and want to say to the hidden camera you are sure is lurking somewhere, "is it me or is it him?"

One night last week, an animal chewed a three… Read full post »

I am my parents 50 year old child.  I am still finding myself.  If you're 50 years old and still trying to find your way, there is no map on the planet that will guide you.  I may not know where to go, but if you'd like to know how to… Read full post »