Best Thing Ever!

I’m not particularly impressed with my new stove. I didn’t get the fingerprint proof kind, and I think it’s going to be a pistol to clean. But it’ll do until I break it. [...]

Happy Place!!!

I know I am an old lady, but I love me some Legos! We have passed the Lego store for years, and no one had time or patience to stop to let me browse. The other day, we had time to kill between [...]

Oops!

I told Ronald the other day I was going to write a cookbook. He looked at me over his glasses with a stare of total disbelief. Of course, I was kidding, but I thought of a few titles. How about [...]

Substitutionary Cooking

We are having company tonight with people I don’t know. I met them at the pool, and I immediately liked them. We’ll see how well they like me after I feed them. My intentions are [...]

Who Am I?

In Les Misérables, the protagonist, Jean Valjean, and the antagonist, Javert, both struggle with self-identity. Through the years, Jean Valjean has become a different person with attitudes and [...]

Balancing Act

Life is a Balancing Act. This is the second installment of my letter to my college bound granddaughter. I always say I’m trying to get my act together, and I do try. Maybe someday it will [...]

No Boxes for Us!

Poor Jack-in-the-box. Every time someone winds him up, he is expected to pop out of the box with the same enthusiasm, the same expression, and the same pattern of behavior. How BORING!!! Eons [...]