Humor
Published: 16/12/2007
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket". I grew up hearing that advice; but I'd never thought of my purse as a basket - until it was stolen. Then I was a basket - case.
At first I couldn't believe it. My purse had been pilfered! Purloined! Filched! Absconded with! My just-been-to-the-ATM...
Published: 16/12/2007
I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't like alarm clocks. I'd love to wake up each morning looking as vibrantly refreshed as the women in Lunesta ads. I don't. I wake up looking like I need sleeping pills instead of my morning vitamins. When my eyes finally open, I see the bathroom scale...
Published: 16/12/2007
Home-cooked meals - pork chops, pot roast and roast chicken - used to be the norm. Now they're the exception. A family that can co-ordinate schedules to have dinner together has become food for thought.
Thoughts about food run the gamut from necessities to no-no's - from vitamins and minerals...
Published: 16/12/2007
Who knew the "for better or for worse" part of my wedding vows would get better and better? When you're opposites, one spouse supposedly balances the other. I don't think so. If you're deaf, it affects your balance. If you're deaf to the beliefs and needs of your partner, wouldn't it affect the...
Published: 16/12/2007
Am I the only mother who wonders why Mother's Day is just once a year? The day a woman brings a child into the world she becomes a mother and she's a mother for the rest of her life.
The way I look at it, children who have been given the gift of life should find ways to thank their mothers...
Published: 16/12/2007
Our first pet was a cat. As newlyweds, John and I were cat people more by convenience than by choice. We were busy and cats don't have to be walked. We were spontaneous and cats can be left alone for hours. We were poor and cats are cheaper to feed.
We didn't take on the responsibility of...
Published: 16/12/2007
If finding a penny is lucky, I must be luckier. I found a quarter and was lucky all day - especially when I didn't hurt my back bending over to pick it up. Traffic lights turned green for me, parking spaces appeared where I wanted them and the police car with the blaring siren that was quickly...
Published: 16/12/2007
Post-its - what would I do without post-its? The older I get, the more I need them. Although they come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors, the basic, yellow square covers everything for me - literally.
Post-its are on the refrigerator, of course; but they can also be found on my...
Published: 16/12/2007
Eve got kicked out of the Garden of Eden and I took that as a sign not to garden. My not having even a pale green thumb was a sign from Mother Nature I wasn't meant to garden.
Not so with my husband. He was born to garden. He was born with green hands.
When he had a garden, I could have...
Published: 16/12/2007
There I was, walking through the department store when an attractive man in a white lab coat and brightly striped tie asked if I'd like a new look.
Being morning challenged, I unintentionally have a new look every day. However, he was offering a professional new look - a free, professional,...
