Slightly Spooky

Today on Michael Feldman’s “What’Ya Know” radio show on NPR, a guest was describing an incident in her life that she found to be incredibly shameful.  At a low point in her life, she was forced to sell everything she owned.  At the yard sale, a man offered her $7.00 for her children’s pet dog, and she agreed.  [...]

Sales(wo)manship

Just about one month ago, wistful notions of once again driving my now departed Saab convertible rushed through my veins.  It was a beautiful spring day and other Saab nuts were out tooling around having fun–making me incredibly jealous and lonely for just one drive.
Fortunately, sanity returned in short order, but the real end of the story has to include how I [...]

Bane of My Existence

For reasons that elude me, muscle cramps in my legs seem to have become the bane of my existence.  After having eaten enough bananas to turn yellow (extra potassium), stretched my legs and feet before retiring (to counter the effects of potential overuse), and forcing fluids (possible issues with dehydration), the problem recurs on an unpleasantly regular basis. 
Desperation even induced me to [...]

Sobbing Over My Saab

Miss my Saab.  Convertible weather has arrived.  A few years ago, I gave in to my long submerged urge to own a 1993 or earlier Saab convertible.  It had a tan interior on a black body.  900 Turbo.  Oooh, what fun it was to drive.  I’m not even really a convertible kind of girl, but there is [...]

Too Tired to Move

There’s an old joke out there about a hillbilly family sitting on their porch listening to a coyote howling at the moon.  Each in turn speculates about why he doesn’t finally give up and fall asleep, but no one has the energy to go chase him away because each is “too tired to move.”  Eventually, someone drives [...]

Disposing of Drugs and Medications

As the world becomes more crowded and more environmentally savvy, the long term effects of what was once seen as a simple common sense solution to the disposal of old pills and other medicines is now recognized as creating issues all of us need to heed.   Drugs that weren’t available two or three generations ago are now part of everyday [...]

A moment of silence for Virginia Tech

There were many references, interviews and news reports today, on the one year anniversary of that horrific day.
As a sign of respect, I am going to use this blogging time that would normally be devoted to what in the grand scheme of life is far less important, to remain quiet and thoughtful about what can happen to any of us [...]