For the refrigerator door
posted over 2 years ago, updated 1 minute later | 8 comments
25 Things I Know for Sure
On the occasion of my birthday with a zero in it, this is what I know for sure:
1. Dark chocolate beats granola.
2. Having a dog is b...
On the occasion of my birthday with a zero in it, this is what I know for sure:
1. Dark chocolate beats granola.
2. Having a dog is b...
You are special today
posted over 2 years ago, updated 12 days later | 7 comments
We are taught “it’s the thought that counts.” Sometimes, that’s not enough.
Birthdays ending in zero are cause for celebration, not just good thoughts. They deserve a proper acknowledgement that a life lived between the last zero and this one wa...
Birthdays ending in zero are cause for celebration, not just good thoughts. They deserve a proper acknowledgement that a life lived between the last zero and this one wa...
Two for the price of one
posted over 2 years ago, updated 10 minutes later | 2 comments
Back in 1992, Bill Clinton campaigned on a promise that Americans who voted for him would get “two for the price of one” because if he was elected president, his multi-talented wife would fill the unpaid, fulltime job as First Lady.
It’s still t...
It’s still t...
Country mouse, city mouse
posted over 2 years ago, updated 7 days later | 2 comments
Ages before Aesop wrote his fables, campfire stories about contrasts between city folks and their country cousins always ended with the bumpkins being wiser than the dandies. That’s because, before Safeway and Saran Wrap, the rural rubes could gro...
Hurricane Watch Aftermath
posted over 2 years ago, updated 3 days later | 1 comment
The good news is that Hurricane Flossie fizzled. There is no bad news. A massive weather mass that threatened the Hawaiian Islands for a week as it churned through the Pacific Ocean as a category 3 hurricane is now a disorganized tropical storm br...
Hurricane Watch
posted over 2 years ago, updated 11 minutes later | 3 comments
It isn’t as if we weren’t warned. Hurricane preparedness information is stamped on milk cartons, tucked inside electric bills, broadcast on radio and television, and takes up all of page 2 in the telephone book. Or so I found out at midnight when ...
The Play's the thing
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 1 hour later | 5 comments
The dogs ran off, headed straight for the stream where feral pigs had trampled its bottom into pools of brown mud during the night’s rainstorm.
“STOP!” I yelled, adding a string of expletives at the wildly wagging tails receding from us. Distract...
“STOP!” I yelled, adding a string of expletives at the wildly wagging tails receding from us. Distract...
Don't tread on my patriotism
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 1 month later | 26 comments
I was invited to meet my friend’s friends for a glass of wine and some superficial conversation; I didn’t know one of them would bring along philosophical gasoline into which I’d throw a rhetorical match.
It was the 4th of July, a hot, sultry nig...
It was the 4th of July, a hot, sultry nig...
A Father Knows Best dad
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 1 month later | 6 comments
He is the sort of family patriarch the Hollywood of Spencer Tracy and Jimmy Stewart loved; understated, polite, firm. The difference between this dad and their “Father Knows Best” dads is that he is never, ever befuddled.
Because he would be mort...
Because he would be mort...
Missing Kate
posted over 2 years ago, updated 2 months later | 20 comments
It seems churlish to mourn the passing of an admired colleague by thinking of my own life; if I was religious, it would probably be a sin. Since I’m not, it’s simply a strange epitaph I offer to Kate, a single, childless woman who left on Mother’s...
