Feed a Printer Starve a Fish?
My adult daughter recently told me that she “pulled a mom.” “Go ahead,” I said on the phone. “Tell me what you did.” She proceeded to explain that she was running a 10k. […]
Author: Leslie Handler
Leslie is an internationally syndicated columnist for Senior Wire and a Society of Newspaper Columnists award winner. She is a frequent contributor to WHYY's Newsworks, and has written for such publications as The Philadelphia Inquirer, Purple Clover, and The Huffington Post. Leslie currently lives smack dab between Philadelphia and New York City with husband Marty, dogs Maggie, Hazel, and Ginger, a collection of fish, said husband's cockatoo who she's been trying to roast for dinner for the last 34 years, and a few occasional uninvited guests. You may follow her blog and read published essays at: LeslieGoesBoom.com. Her first book,Rats, Mice and Other Things You Can't Take to the Bank is now available on Amazon.
I Found The Fountain of Youth
In my twenties, which was in the eighties, I played cassettes and made mix tapes. In my thirties, which was in the nineties, I played cd’s and burned my favorite tunes onto them. Then […]
Toxic, Tea Lights and TP
(For Donna’s ant spray, lighter, and TP challenge) I never have been able to figure it out. Every time you hear about a storm on the way everyone rushes to the grocery store. I understand […]
Weather Has Left The Build…er…City
So today, my weather ap says that it’s a balmy forty-two degrees outside. But the other day, when I opened up that ap to see how cold it was, I discovered that we actually had […]
The Mysterious Chirp
As a wedding gift, one of our friends gave us a sweet little white cockatiel. We would leave its cage door open and it would fly right to us if we called it by name. […]
My Mysterious Mind
The saying goes that God works in mysterious ways. Personally, I think it’s my mind that works in mysterious ways. I’ve started to wonder about a lot of weird stuff lately. So here’s how my […]
What Airline?
You know you’re old when you go to the airport and you don’t even recognize the names of the airlines anymore. What the heck happened to Braniff and TWA? While trying to find an […]
Wealth: The Saga Coninues
For Your Daily Chuckle: go ahead, laugh at my life! If you were kind enough to read yesterday’s essay on Wealth, please go back and read the new ending: Ending The Saga […]
