Two years ago today, I married my best friend. And I’m thrilled to report that marriage hasn’t changed that. Known as The Cutest Man In The World (TCMITW) to those …
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Checked myself in the checkout line
There’s a lesson in this story, and I’m not sure what it is. But the story goes something like this: Being a hard-wired penny-pincher (it’s genetic — I had a …
So many sources for my weekly disappointment
As the editor of the local newspaper, the Winters Express, every week, I aim for a perfect edition. And every week, I’m disappointed. Several factors: simple, garden variety obsessive compulsiveness; …
Finding jeans is tough when you’re a Super Slim
Finally. Blue jeans that fit. Cute ones, not soccer mom jeans that scream “Not tonight, honey, I have a headache” or those, bulky high-waisted things with elastic waistbands that make …
You haven’t heard the last of my soggy saga
And you thought you’d heard the last of my ramblings about being flooded out of my home last fall. And you were wrong again. If you were swept into my …
What ya gotta go and there’s nowhere to go to go
The best part of last week’s story about my adventures in radio commercials is the part I didn’t tell: getting there. But first, some context. I have the bladder of …
No big ‘O’ for animals?
Strange thoughts trickle into your mind at 3:30 a.m., that dull, fuzzy cross-section in time between “I’ve had four hours of sleep, I could just get up” and “It’s two …
This is a remote I could use
Oh, Judy T., you made my day, week, month, and possibly my whole year last week, and it’s only February. That means everything else that happens in 2011 is just …
Guilty pleasures
Goddess, forgive me, for I have snarfed. I know I shouldn’t consume these things but sometimes…. under just the right circumstances… when no one’s looking… ~ Spicy pork rinds ~ …
A Single Remote, a Single Remote, My Queendom for a Single Remote
“The problem with your generation,” said my son, “is that you don’t understand ‘input’.” This nugget of wisdom offered as he listened to me lament about my cute little basket …