Live and Learn

            I recently encountered two conflicting quotes in the same week – one in a book and one on a sign. Here they are: “The hard thing about life is the dailyness of it” and “The good thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”             As I pondered these… Continue reading Life is So Daily

            It’s not often that I get to amaze people, but I did it the other day. I was talking to a friend about my day and told her I had been spent a good bit of my afternoon cooking. She asked me what I had made and my list included brownies.             “REAL brownies?”… Continue reading Nothin’ But the Real Thing

    Everywhere we turn these days, we’re bombarded with medical tips, so now it’s my turn to pass one along: Eat fiber and do whatever it takes to lovingly care for your colon. I guess I didn’t, and I have recently spent several weeks of my life enduring some rather awful procedures and discussing things… Continue reading When You Think You Can’t, You Can

           When I was a kid, our refrigerator was nearly always packed with small plastic containers, each storing mysterious morsels of leftover food. Every so often, my Mom would unload the fridge and serve us what she called “dab suppers” – a dab of this and a dab of that. She wasn’t into wasting anything,… Continue reading A Dab of This and That

    A pair of my son’s pants lies draped across a sewing machine in my bedroom – a testimonial to my thorough aversion to reading instruction manuals. The pants are calling to me, “Hem me … hem me.”  “Hem yourself,” I snort back. It’s a standoff.     The new sewing machine was a Christmas present.… Continue reading The Only Instruction Manual I’ll Read

    “Mom, are you free or attached?” my 18-year-old son asked the other night at the dinner table.     “Huh?” I asked incredulously. I looked over at my husband of nearly 27 years and said, “I’m attached. Real attached.”     “Your earlobes,” Andy said matter-of-factly while obviously trying to get a look at the side… Continue reading So Much to Learn

            If you’ve been reading my columns for awhile, you know that my dog, Winston, is serving a life sentence for unashamedly harassing neighborhood chickens, rabbits and a horse. He’s doing his time in a fenced-in acre of our backyard and I want you to know that he seems to be coping quite well with… Continue reading Lessons From an Unlikely Teacher

    Everybody misplaces things from time to time. Car keys, T.V. remotes, reading glasses … pool tables. Well, okay, maybe not everybody misplaces pool tables, but I did once and the story still boggles my mind.     My parents had generously given us money to buy a pool table one year for Christmas, knowing it… Continue reading Anything bounced off your truck?

           Remember the good old days when there were no commercials on T.V. for prescription drugs? Now we can hardly get through a single program without being badgered to run to our doctors for some kind of wonder pill.            I think it’s interesting to observe how the marketing experts place pharmaceutical ads on T.V.… Continue reading The Best Medicine

    Poor, misguided soul. That’s what I thought as I was recently watching a college basketball game and saw that one of the players had a big tattoo emblazoned on his back which read, “All eyes on ME.”     After my initial repulsion at such an arrogant statement, I began to feel sorry for this… Continue reading All eyes on ME? I hope not!