I want my hour back. Daylight Saving Time, while I do appreciate it staying lighter later, sucks. We have been inundated with massive quantities of rain – could you imagine if it were colder (high yesterday was a whole whopping 48) how much snow the 6-inches of rain would have been in snow form? Something…
Do you remember the first job you ever had? I don’t mean the miscellaneous ones like babysitting or cutting the neighbors lawn. I mean the very first ‘real taxes-deducted-from-paycheck’ job. My very first job the minute after I turned 16 was for a retail store called Pay’n’Save. It was a Washington State fixture which through…
Edgar Mueller Super Artist Great Crevasse Edgar Mueller. Hard work: Together with up to five assistants, Mueller painted all day long from sunrise to sunset. The picture appeared on the East Pier in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, as part of the town’s Festival of World Cultures. He spent five days, working 12 hours a day, to…
This week’s “Fun and Games with Jenners” sounded especially fun, so I’ve decided to play along! This week she has asked us to write a story incorporating as many song titles as we possibly can. I have the song titles in bold, and the list of songs after the story…enjoy! Their love was like Romeo…
I consider it my ‘guilty pleasure’ watching shows like Ghost Whisperer and Medium. I’m intrigued by the fact that Medium is based on a real person and portrays her and her family. Do I buy into that whole “I see dead people” bit? Not so much. But who am I to knock what other people…
Princess Nagger’s favorite class in first grade is Arts and Crafts. I love that she enjoys being crafty just like her Mama. Yesterday her art teacher had the class draw pictures of clowns. Princess Nagger’s clown was pretty impressive (if I do say so myself): Now let’s look at the whole picture: She just had…
Look at that…it’s Tuesday already! The last Tuesday before we’re robbed of an hour of sleep thanks to Daylight Saving Time. Why do we have to subject ourselves to moving the clocks back and forth? It might be time to think about moving to where they leave well enough alone. I don’t mind gaining the…
