The Deli Wars
Usually, when I do my “big” shopping, I ask my husband to come along so we can split up the list and get out of the supermarket as quickly as possible. Our first stop was […]
Category: Everyday Life
Coping with CRAFT Disease
As a chronic sufferer of CRAFT disease I can honestly say that it has not been an easy adjustment. At the age forty-five I began developing mild symptoms however by fifty the symptoms worsened. My […]
The Day Jane Fell Out of Her Chair
My friend, Jane, walked into the doctor’s office. When the doctor walked in, he greeted his old friend, “Hello, Jane. How are you doing today?” “Well, I’ve been better,” Jane said. “What’s wrong? I noticed […]
Wilderness Training 101: Stay in a Hotel
My daughter’s boyfriend is an outdoorsman, and this is funny because my daughter is not the woodsy type. His idea of roughing it is sleeping in the woods without a tent; her idea of roughing […]
How your body improves with Age!
I now have over six decades in this body under my belt. (It gets harder and harder to keep it all under the belt!) In that time, I have learned a few things about body […]
Rant is the New Rage: Plastic Flowers in Gardens
As an avid gardener I love to go out in my gardens and feel the hot sun on my cheeks, (that’s my face cheeks you perverts) and the soft garden soil beneath my feet. I take […]
Old Friends and New Boobs
I had this freckle. Now, I am a fair-skinned person, so I have a ton of freckles, but this one was different. I would never have known it was different if a friend of mine […]
Fur Flies at the Sonic Drive-In
http://gty.im/141632837 This morning, there seemed to be one crisis after another. I ran out of creamer for my coffee, one of my editors needed to vent at me about another writer, and I had a […]
What A Man Can Expect at the Doctor’s Office When He Turns 40
So there I was nearly one year ago, being discharged from the doctor’s office. “Do you like early appointments?” “Sure” “Is February 14th of next year at 8:00am OK?” (Yes, I did at this moment […]
The Plight of the Non-Essential Government Worker
So, here we are in the middle of a budget war. At this point, even if Congress get its act together and agrees on a budget and avoids a long-standing federal government shut down, it […]