Yes, you're in the right place. Kind of like an abandoned crack house, isn't it? Just goes to show you how quickly this particular gypsy can fold up her tents when she needs to... Due to circumstances that I cannot... [...]
As Taggart (Slim Pickens) so eloquently exclaimed in the movie "Blazing Saddles": "WHAT IN THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS IS A' GOIN' ON HERE?" For reasons that are still incomprehensible to me, Blogger has once again changed the way... [...]
Just prior to the Christmas season a few years ago my mother dropped off the above crudely rendered cardboard tableaux thinking I might want it...you know...for display in my home so that strangers as well as friends who come by... [...]
I'm sure I'm not alone in noticing that grocery stores were playing Christmas music even before Thanksgiving Day had arrived. Television commercials are using shivering snowmen to sell Campbell's by having them eat green bean/cream of mushroom soup casserole and... [...]
As I write this three turkeys are thawing slowly in the garage refrigerator; their fates are sealed. The indoor crisper is bursting with celery, berries and cilantro. The kitchen counter is littered with bags of potatoes, onions and bulbs of... [...]
This Thanksgiving season I'd like to address a few of the freedoms that Norman Rockwell did not commit to canvas whilst using his brushes and paint to illustrate "Freedom from Want," "Freedom of Worship", etc, etc. Play along if you... [...]
Friday evening I made what might be categorized as an impulse purchase. I saw that Barnes & Noble was selling dvd copies of Sesame Street's "Learning About Letters" and "Learning About Numbers" for $9.99 each and, because I was unable... [...]
Hitchcock's movie "Rear Window" happens to be one of my favorites among what has to be a lengthy and very eclectic laundry list of films I enjoy watching over and over again. One obvious explanation is that it's a Hitchcock... [...]
So...the writer's strike is causing an uproar with television executives and that means I might have to watch reruns of my boyfriends Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert until things get figured out. That's fine. Being from Texas and surrounded as... [...]
Overnight stays at our grandparents' homes were not unusual when I was little and neither were they unlooked for. They were, depending upon whether we were staying with my father's family or my mother's, two completely different situations.Trips to see... [...]
In honor of this festive occasion, please tell me what kind of candy you hated to get in your trick-or-treat bag...and what kind you loved. As for me? I detested the black and orange-wrapped licorice. And...I adored eating a Hershey... [...]
Every neighborhood has one...or--at least--they used to and...truthfully...I miss the ones I used to know. When I was a kid the neighborhood busybody was a woman I'll call Pearl. Unfortunately, I'm not at liberty to discuss Pearl's proclivities since she... [...]
I read the obituaries every day and I tell you this now even though I know this opening statement sounds a little goulish. Really, though, once you've worked past the obvious purpose of the typical newspaper obituary you have to... [...]
I'm not saying there's a curse on Half House or anything, but the unusually high number of appliances/vehicles/other items that have broken down in the past few weeks is starting to make me a little nervous. Not that I'm expecting... [...]
Even though it was no longer 1978 we went to see Peter Frampton last night. If I closed my eyes...it was almost as though I was a teenager again. We seemed to move backwards and forwards in time with the... [...]
I was flipping through my New Yorker magazine the other day and came across your ad for the American Express Card and it was in that moment I realized how much alike you and I are. [...]
A few years ago a clipboard was passed around our Sunday School class requesting volunteers for a local Habitat for Humanity build. I studied the sheet of names for a moment, took a deep breath and added my signature to... [...]
Okay...so I wear glasses. (see left) Perhaps I've made some vague reference to that fact before, but I don't think I've ever published evidence of it on this blog. Traditionally, if someone has a camera pointed in my direction with... [...]
Dear Tucker, I can't believe we're doing this again...already. And I think the first time I made that statement was when your older brother was five months old and I was holding a positive pregnancy test (you!) in... [...]
This shrink-wrapping is what happens when there is black mold in your hall closet. Because of the rain. The rain that came in through a leak in the roof and grew a carpet of black stuff next to your holiday... [...]
I leave tomorrow to take Tucker and a friend down to the motherland to Texas A&M for their academic tours and meetings with advisors in their respective fields of study. We'll meet up with the oldest son and bring his... [...]
