I cel­e­brated my 58th birth­day on Mon­day.  I wish it meant I was just start­ing my 58th year not end­ing it!! Some­how, know­ing you are start­ing your 59th year makes it not quite so much fun. Some peo­ple like to take stock of their lives on the first of the year. I like to do it […]

Well.…bet every­one won­dered if I’d dropped off the earth or something…which really is quite a funny say­ing when you think about it…I mean really, has any­one EVER dropped off the earth? No. But it is a great visual. It has been a fun, fast and furi­ous week and I am glad all is set­tling back […]

This morn­ing, get­ting some­thing out of a lower cup­board, I acci­den­tally pulled a very heavy pan out that landed squarely on my big toe. Now that I can breath again, I fig­ure it is not bro­ken but the nail is a goner. Holy crap that hurt!! My ques­tion, how­ever, is not about my gen­eral clum­si­ness, but […]

Don’t know if you have seen the video mak­ing the rounds of  Sarah P.‘s snafu where she had writ­ten notes to her­self, for her speech, on the palm of her hand, and then must have for­got­ten as she was ges­tur­ing and it was there for all to see? Well, it is pretty funny. They also […]

Dear Van­cou­ver, My hus­band and I heard on the news this morn­ing that Van­cou­ver does not “have enough snow” con­sid­er­ing the Win­ter Olympics start this week­end.  We believe a lit­tle fore­thought on the olympic com­mit­tees side would have pre­vented this, because Iowa was never in the run­ning and they should have been. See, they think […]

I had the won­der­ful oppor­tu­nity to have the grand­son for a week­end here lately. It was the best of times. Today I finally got around to pack­ing away all the toys I had drug out to play with him that were still lurk­ing in boxes in the base­ment. Try­ing to be a good and respon­si­ble person, […]

I just renewed my dri­vers license yes­ter­day. It is good for 5 years. When I renew again I will be COUGH #%@**@%@# HACK*@##%@**&@@# turn­ing 63. That puts a whole new per­spec­tive on life. Crap.