Death By Tennis Ball
Now that I’ve made my apologies and have been forgiven for taking our whole parenting dilemma public, I can concentrate on other apologies like the one I must issue to the woman I almost killed yesterday. It was nearly death by tennis ball which doesn’t happen too often and has me wondering if I should [...]
Ten more hours, but who’s counting?
Before first light there is the shushing quiet that is snow at dawn. I’m thirty four years old and the winter landscape, sugar coated trees and drifts of snowflakes across the lawn at sunrise, still takes my breath away. That quiet peaceful beginning was, unfortunately, not any indication of the day to come.
I suppose [...]
Happy Holiday, Gone Wassailing…
Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday, Feliz Navidad and all that good stuff. Picture me here, in my living room, basking in the glow of the tree and sipping a little souped up nog. Hold that picture for a few days. It’s a good one. One I wish were close to the truth of what’s really going [...]
Expectation
If you are like me, then a little a bit of you will be disappointed this Christmas. It’s not like being six years old again and believing, really believing, that Santa will bring you a pony despite the fact that there is no pasture or stable or knowledge of ponies within a twenty mile radius [...]
Gift Swap Gone Wrong
The invitation came by e-mail. An E-vite. A Naughty or Nice gift swap. Ladies only. The promise of Pomegranate Martinis and stuffed mushrooms and elegant cocktail napkins. Until that E-vite arrived, I didn’t know how much I’d been missing the annual Scotch Swap we used to attend in Miami, all the raunchy, cheap-o [...]
Not until December
Shouldn’t there be a law, some sort of ordinance against the display of Christmas decorations before the flowers in the Thanksgiving centerpiece have shriveled and died?
Driving around town, one would think that Old Saint Nick was beating an immediate path to our doors, like tonight, this afternoon, visiting only those previous and industrious enough to [...]
My ‘Crazy’
We have had house guests. Oh, okay, I have had house guests and the other people that live here have merely enjoyed the additional meals and exceptional fussing that comes with my having company. For everyone else it was just another long weekend save for the five course meal on Thursday and the addition [...]
November
It is so November around here. The mice have begun to find startlingly brilliant ways in to the cupboard, where they tear into bags of dried split peas and coconut and leave mouse size droppings in the dried fruit. No matter how harshly I chastise the cats, they only lift their dowsing heads and then [...]
Thinking of You, Fudge Ripple
I am in the third day of a self-imposed hunger strike. No, not a writer’s strike. Sadly, I have no wages to contest. Nevertheless, I have made a vow, damn it, and it involves chocolate and ice cream and gummy worms. Yes, I ate way too much candy on Halloween and though I didn’t [...]
Welcome to middle age
Yesterday I got my hair cut. Okay, shorn is a more apt descriptive. I didn’t mean for the stylist to get so aggressive. I may have exaggerated when I declared that I was thinking of taking three inches off the bottom. I had had too much Pumpkin Decaf Latte. He should have known I was [...]
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