This is the time of year when I really start to feel uncreative. I envy the people who reside in big cities and who commute via their feet. Me? I walk down my front steps, open the car door, and drive to where I need to go. As a result, […]

So that’s where Lucy’s been stashing all the cat toys I’ve always been very close to my mom. Only child. Single mom. She’s not just my mom, she’s my buddy too. Logic follows that we’d talk on the phone a lot. When in Chicago, we probably talked at least twice […]

My husband leaves newspapers in the bathroom all the time. A guy thing, I suppose. Gotta poop? Need to take the paper with ya. When I was tidying up in there yesterday, the headline above caught my eye. Then I started reading. Ohmigod. Seriously. The stupid people rear their ugly […]

The boys nicely agreed to pose for me as I tried out the new flash I’d call part of today a “me” day. You know, a day where you do a few things that make you exclusively happy. It started with a simple trip to my hair stylist. I’ve been […]

This one’s mine…and it’s not going anywhere I was talking with a fellow contractor at my client yesterday, when the tech support guy, Shawn’s his name, moseyed on over with a glint in his eye. Now Shawn and I get along fabulously. I’m not a demanding, fix-it-now type of person. […]

A couple of weeks ago I was lamenting the fact that I never seemed to have time to read. A few days later, I was granted that time when I came down with the crud that is the flu. I read three books in the first four days of my […]

The first photo I’ve taken in a week A note to the manufacturers of OTC flu/cold/cough medications: maybe you should test your packaging on actual SICK people before rolling it out to the masses. You see, when an individual has the flu, that person’s symptoms include headache, fever, chills, sneezing, […]

Topping off a mug of Swiss Miss Chocolate English Toffee I have an addiction to whipped cream. Not the heavy-duty stuff. I prefer the lite version. (Not fat-free, though. That’s just icky.) The heavy-duty stuff, the stuff they add to your mocha at the local (or national) coffee shop, clocks […]

This isn’t Lucy’s best attempt at Yoda ears, but it’s pretty close Is it too greedy to ask for longer days? I really could use more hours. Sure, it would take longer for holidays to roll around and for vacations to commence, but once they did, you’d have more time […]

The ball she rescued from the wet, muddy park (and her wet, not-so-muddy pawprint on our floor) On our way out of the park today, Juliette decided she wanted to take along the tennis ball she’d found. Then she got a bit distracted by someone’s discarded sandwich. Then she picked […]

I just missed the shot of a beam of sun lighting up the top of this pile of snow. I’m always “just missing” shots! It’s January. It’s cold. It’s dreary. My skin is dry and itchy. My hands are constantly cold. Even my poor cat has dry, flaky skin. Typical […]

It’s not necessarily a standoff, but there’s a bit of a “war” that goes on between me and my loving husband. It involves cleaning things. Things in the kitchen, to be exact. Several years ago, when we were co-habitating in Chicago, Scott bought a $20 cast-iron skillet from Service Merchandise. […]