I’ve been lucky. In all the years since I obtained my driver’s license, I’ve only been in a couple of minor accidents. Not long after I’d gotten my license and was tasked with driving my brother and I to and from school in my parent’s Toyota station wagon (if that doesn’t scream “cool” I don’t…
I’ve mentioned now and again that I have a head of Hella Hair. While I curse it on some days, other days I feel very blessed to have the head’o’hair that I do – in fact, it’s one of my best assets, at least most of the time. My parents gifted us kids in the…
Once upon a time, when I was working 60+ hours a week in the Corporate World, I always somehow managed to keep my house or apartment spotlessly clean. It was second nature, making sure things were put away. Possibly bordering on OCD with everything having a place and everything in its place. Fast forward to…
Still limping along without the basic luxury of internet, phone and cable, but once again utilizing the cold dark parking lot of the gas station down the road from where I live in order to borrow their working WiFi hotspot, with the few pictures from Halloween. It was a meager Halloween this year – there…
Then… Growing up, we lived in the perfect neighborhood to Trick-or-Treat in. An idyllic neighborhood full of young families and scads of kids, during a time when neighbors were actually neighborly. Us kids would get all excited about dressing up and going from house-to-house to see how much candy we could collect (and how much…
It was a Dark and Stormy Night… Wait, no it wasn’t. That’s a different story entirely. Yesterday marked the 1-year anniversary of my Father-in-Law’s passing. It’s hard to believe it’s already been a whole year. The hubby was quieter-than-normal yesterday, since it was his final parent and he was an only child, the passing of…
It’s been a while since I’ve participated in the Spin Cycle – I’ve mentally written posts, but never put them to keyboard…boy, with new technology that turn of phrase just doesn’t sound as cool as ‘put pen to paper’ does it? Because things have been so crazy adjusting to a new schedule since Little Dude…
