We were bored, as I remember it. It was Christmas 1972 and we had traveled to Bloomington, Minnesota to spend the holiday with my mother’s sister, Auntie Gladys, and her…
1. Did you ever think that you’d be a star? If yes, doing what? I used to tell my mother that when I grew up, I was going to be…
In my mother’s eyes, it was all about fairness. Equality. Justice. Even when she took the concept to illogical and decidedly unfair extremes. It’s really no wonder that I wound…
California has been wet, windy, and wild this week. On Monday afternoon, I was driving west on Highway 4 near the Pittsburgh BART station en route to Marin County. I…
1. About how many hours a week do you spend watching TV? I spend far fewer hours actually watching television than the television set is turned on. I listen to…
. . . Continued from Getting into Trouble. It’s a difficult story about a difficult time in my life, so I have told it in a straight-forward manner few times…
His name was Reggie and I had never known anyone like him. It was early 1978. I was 21 years old and living in Fullerton, California. Away from home for…
Sophie actually allowed me to place these silly antlers on her for about a minute yesterday. BigBob bought them several years ago and she would not tolerate them for even…
Many folks have been blogging and Twittering about taking down all of their holiday decorations. One woman wrote that she had the tree down and everything stowed away for next…
This week’s meme comes from Nik of Spatula Forum. The Final Week of 2009 Meme 1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before? I guess the…
1. What did you think of 2009? This has been a watershed year for me in which I implemented plans that I made long ago, as well as spontaneous ideas.…
This week’s meme comes from StaceyC4 of All Stace, All the Time, but it was authored by Lola at Lola’s Diner, one of my favorite blogs. Lola’s Holiday Meme 1.…
1. If you live where you get winter weather, do you prefer your Christmas to be white? If you never see snow, do you wish for it? We usually have…
1. No, we will not be going out this New Year’s Eve. I plan to be right here at home the whole evening. I am going to cook dinner –…
1. Tell us about a night that you spent with someone who was a stranger, yet by the end of the night you were very close. In May 1985, I…
1. Good times: It’s “Furlough Friday” so #1Son and I picked Mattie-Boo up from school at noon and the three of us had lunch at our friend’s cafe. This afternoon…
This week’s meme comes from Catherine Donovan, aka “Marvelnotagirl” who blogs at Walking Tall Against the Rain. Budd at Sunday Stealing adapted it. The Can’t Sleep Meme Would it be…
1. What to you is the most joyous aspect of the holidays? For the past 25 years, I have taken vacation time over the holidays and this year will be…
This week’s meme comes from Linda at Are We There Yet? The Over the Top Meme Part One – Describe: Your hair? Short, spiky, with blond highlighting. Your mother? Tenacious,…
“In the end, your family tree is a diagram of a thousand choices, all made in your favor.” Robert Brault Parenting is hardly an exact science. In fact, it is…
“All of the places of our lives are sanctuaries; some of them just happen to have steeples. And all of the people in our lives are saints; it is just…
This week’s meme comes from Apryl at Meridian Ariel. The Halloween Meme 1. What is your favorite written work of horror fiction? I am not a big fan of horror…
Lynette Kraft at Dancing Barefoot on Weathered Ground is hosting a Harvest of Friends Blog Party, an opportunity to get acquainted with bloggers whose sites you may never have visited…