Can you have ADD only in regards to one thing, like cooking or on-line shopping or car maintenance, or in my case perhaps, writing? I am starting to wonder about myself as a writer. Well, I suppose I have always wondered about myself as a writer, thus this blog. I’ve chalked up a lot to fearContinue reading “Scatterbrained”
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Smell The One You’re With
I’ve been home a few weeks now and I think I’m starting to smell different. I don’t mean my olfactory faculties have changed. I mean I think I actually have a different smell. It’s a strange mix of sauted onions and garlic, chlorine, dog hair, anti-bacterial dish soap, worn denim, paper, tahmari sauce, cold air, maple syrup, old slippers, toast, blood orangesContinue reading “Smell The One You’re With”
Febuparty
February is nonstop entertainment. First there’s Groundhog Day where grown men dress up like Lincoln and cuddle with the poor animal. This year the critter predicted an early spring. Who cares? I want it to tell us a few other things that might actually be useful like will we ever balance the budget, who wins best screenplay this year, andContinue reading “Febuparty”
Just Keep Swimming
Yesterday it began. Aqua therapy. It sounds like I met with a shrink in a giant water tank and discussed prenatal issues (My mother just left me floating there, she never talked to me, she drank beer and ate enormous amounts of baklava). But no, it is something my doctor prescribed for fibromyalgia. You perform exercisesContinue reading “Just Keep Swimming”
It’s Been A Long Time Coming
Did you do it? Did you make those same 5 resolutions for the New Year? Exercise, write every day, no sugar, stop slouching, pay the bills on time. Is this the year? Will you actually do it? Are you ready for a makeover, a new reality? The Biggest Looser? The Bachelorette? The Next Iron Chef? What will youContinue reading “It’s Been A Long Time Coming”
Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired
Do you think that Mary-the-Virgin-Mother-of-God ever looked to the heavens after traveling a million miles through desert and bumpy terrain on the back of a saggy-ass donkey passing Inn after Inn with No Vacancy signs but Joseph insisting they can’t ask anyone where the next empty Inn is because he’ll find it himself then they finallyContinue reading “Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired”
You Can’t Cry on the Moon
Did you know that we are 50% banana? My youngest daughter, who has a penchant for odd or interesting facts, Ripley’s Believe It or Not books, the TV show Buried Treasures, rocks and sea glass, and inventions (since there are butt warmers in cars she thinks there should be air-conditioned back coolers for the summer-and if youContinue reading “You Can’t Cry on the Moon”
The Days of Brine and Roses
We’re in charge of turkeys. There is one in the oven that weighs 25 pounds. Another 13 pounder is in my mother’s Nesco Roaster Oven that I inherited. It hasn’t been used in a while so we looked up the owner’s manual on-line. A rather unhelpful guide, although there is a baked scrambled egg recipe for 50 people if you need it. BothContinue reading “The Days of Brine and Roses”
This Is My Brain On Cheese
It started Friday evening with a grilled cheese sandwich on whole wheat and ended last night with a Twix bar in bed watching The Good Wife. Yup. I fell off the no-dairy wagon. I fell mightily. I’d been off of dairy and eggs for a little over 2 months. The first few weeks were rough,Continue reading “This Is My Brain On Cheese”
I’m A Lot Like You Are
My father has given up on the world. Whenever I talk to him he is wrestling with despair. He doesn’t understand why so many terrible things are happening around him. Why God took my mother and not the alcoholic down the street. Why Uncle Joey, the kindest man on earth, has to suffer with Parkinson’s,Continue reading “I’m A Lot Like You Are”
In the Chair 