Celebrate Me Home

As I typed in the title of this piece, Perspective, an old cheerleading ditty came to mind. But instead of chanting "Aggressive, got to...

 I was rather pissy yesterday and was determined to write about what a bait and switch, waste of time I spent at a Sprint store. You know...

Suspension Of Disbelief Last week I went to the movies twice. First I saw a silly Seth Rogan/Charlize Theron roman...

Walking with Denise On Monday I asked my neighbor Denise if she would like to go to the library with me. She said ...

Around noon, my neighbor Deedee gave me a call. There was a woman from the shelter where she worked waiting for transportation from the urge...

This Napa Valley is wonderfully fertile and interesting to a born and bred city girl. Eating a fig picked right from a tree is a life changi...

It is almost three months since Betty died and I am missing her in my own way. I see an article about dogs or funny cats, find shoes in her ...

Recently, someone from my past got in touch with me on Facebook and I thought I'd friend them and reconnect. Oy, oy vey, oy vey is meir....

Back when I was a young mother with young children I accompanied my daughter's class to an art museum. At that time I also had a prescho...

I started blogging on a private site back in 2007 or so. It was a safe place to pour out my thoughts and heart. I was secure in the knowledg...

The title of this blog is 62 + 2. If I wrote it tomorrow it would be 62 + 3. Because what is the significance of a birthday as opposed to th...

This has been a difficult week for me. Making it to Friday without running away, calling in sick, or just plain quitting is a victory. One ...

Yesterday I had an 11 am start at work. The lights were not working when I got off the highway. Everyone was very courteous and stopped at e...

I was reading someone's post and they wrote, "What are you listening to now... right now?"  And I thought, silence, blessed, b...

I have lost 49 pounds since last October. I haven't been denying myself good things, but by using portion control and controlling what I...

My sister-in-law, Leslie and I were trying to figure out when we got the same Trek Antelope bikes for Christmas. I think it might have been ...

What is porn? It is obscenity. What is obscenity? In the famous words of Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, "I know it when I see it...

There is no easy way to say it; I'll just come right out and admit that I am owned by a Siamese cat. I own Piper, a Maine Coon, and as m...

The other day I posted "If they gave degrees in bargain shopping, I'd be a PhD" as my facebook status. I had just come in from...

I think I was forty years old before I learned a consistent way to remember left from right. Make a letter L with the left thumb and forefin...

I like to listen to books on cd when I drive, consequently I have a hard time keeping up with contemporary popular music. My son-in-law, Joh...

Today was, in the old parlance, wash day. In honor of Spring I stripped the bed, even the duvet cover. When I went to the laundry room almos...

Have you seen the commercial for Crest products? The tag line is "life opens up when you do." On and off throughout my life I have...

There hasn't been ice cream in my home since October. Very very little junk food at all. I have been controlling portion size and basica...

Everyone knows we are having a challenging April. Snow this morning and rain right now. May flowers!!! Several choices, stay in bed, eat fat...

Since getting cable TV and The Food Channel, (but not the Cooking Channel) I have been learning a lot of new things and shaking my head at o...

Sometimes I get so ticked at some of the behavior I see in Minnesota. That is the frustration, or at least one of them. Let's talk about...

I have written before about the concern some of my neighbors and I have for another neighbor, Gerrie. She has lost her short term memory and...

This year I attended both a Passover Seder and an Easter dinner. The Seder was exquisitely cooked and the Easter dinner was pretty awful, as...

This morning I decided to turn the mattress and topper on my platform bed. It is a pillow top mattress with only one side up so I had to huf...