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 […]
Category: Lifestyle
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 […]
Wedding Dreams and Nightmares
I have become addicted to two wedding-themed shows on television. The first, Say Yes to the Dress, focuses on the sales consultants and clients of Kleinfeld’s, a renowned bridal salon in New York City. During […]
My Refrigerator and the Parallel Universe
My coffee creamer had somehow re-located itself to the back of my refrigerator. As I removed the soy milk, the orange juice, the tomato juice, and the ten other items that stood in front of […]
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 […]
Is that Burning Hair I Smell?
I was having lunch with a friend, and she brought up the topic of her laser hair removal treatments. Now, immediately I became interested as this is the second time in about two weeks the […]
CORPORATE MESSAGING: When a News Item is Really Just More Promotional Junk
There was a news clip on the local ABC affiliate here in Dallas-Ft.Worth, WFAA, on their evening news yesterday that did something that infuriates me. A segment was dedicated to an individual whose passion and […]
The Mom Dance
One day, while I was visiting at my daughter’s college apartment, she and her roommate were telling me how they took their other roommate’s mom out to the bars for some dancing and college decadence. […]