Ornaments on my mother’s tree My mom is feeling better. Slowly. And I narrowly averted the nasty flu after being surrounded by her and Scott for two straight days. Of course, I’m knocking on wood while typing this because I know firsthand how easily a person can catch those cooties.

Merry, merry What they report on the news is true. The flu is infecting everyone. Including my husband and my mom. Unfortunately, mom’s version was a bit more severe, which put us in the Bronson Hospital emergency on Christmas Day. They pumped an IV into her and gave her various […]

Aunt Nancy’s holiday spread (note the snowmen everywhere) I’m nowhere close to 22. I haven’t been for a while. So my family’s holiday party was raised to the status of must-attend event when this year two of my uncles declared me to look very young. Very young. When Bud, my […]

Leaving Billy’s and returning to the vehicle I’ll be the first to admit when I deserve something. Say if I drank way too much, got tipsy and annoying, and then woke up the next morning with a hangover. I would think I deserved it. Sure. But the fact is, on […]

Do we look like we’re related? I can never tell. Happy birthday, Mom!

Chicago: May 2003 I loved Chicago in the summer. Scott and I used to walk everywhere, exploring the different neighborhoods. We biked along the lake, I sometimes sneaked ice cream cones when I disembarked at the Addison el stop, we sat outside at Southport Lanes after softball eating grilled cheese […]

Countertop display at The Coffee Beanery, Woodland Mall I know…it’s bad to gloat. But I’m so absolutely clueless about the ins and outs of Fantasy Football. And yet I still kicked butt! Beating the league commissioner, no less. And, ahem, the score was 121 to 61. I got suckered into […]