Some days I think I can read my dog Sparky’s mind. Today was one of those days …

I saw an ad for a little mini circular saw today. What a nifty gadget, and small too! I want one, I need one, and besides – it’s a personal thing. So I went to my husband, Howard, because I wanted to know what he thought of it. After all, he is the man-of-the-hour on […]

It’s been almost six months since Mother’s Day and I might be finally over it. I felt like a total failure on Mother’s Day. I read all those blogs and newspaper articles about what wonderful, endearing things good mothers do for their children. Things I never did. Like leaving little saccharine love notes in their […]

Another COVID-19 surge has come and gone.  It seems that we emerge from one viral storm only to go into another one.  The virus lurks everywhere, just waiting to replicate itself in the bodies of unwitting hosts.  With the possibility of more and more variants on the horizon, my sense of humor is about to […]

Woke up at 330 AM from a weird dream in which I was in an argument with Elon Musk. Why him? Probably because he’s been in the news so much and I had just read some vacuous article describing the bizarre procreative behaviors of his father accompanied by pictures of the younger Musk’s pale corpulence […]

I’ve tolerated a lot of  bad moods lately, most of them mine.  Some of them are simple sulks – others  downright hostile. Other people – especially family- can really ruin my day, but I’m careful what I say to them.  I make it a policy to never curse or swear at family members – though […]

     Sometimes I think it’s easy to lose your mind.  It doesn’t take much, just a minor mishap, maybe a few small debacles, or just one calamity. Adversities, tribulations, or Covid-19 shelter-in-place can also take their toll, but they have not been the cause of my predicament and hopefully my situation is only temporary.  I […]

Another Christmas season is almost gone. I’ll be so relieved. Not that I’m a bah humbug person and not that I don’t have at least a few Christmas memories that I treasure, but there are a whole bunch of Christmases that I would just like to forget (and for some no good reason, I can’t.) […]

In 2010, a harsh Florida winter cold snap killed a scazillion iguanas. Nine years later, they’re back, crawling all over South Florida, on sidewalks, canal banks, hotfooting it on driveways and local roads, lurking behind cars and in trees. They are everywhere.  Harmless herbivores or prodigious poo makers? It’s a matter of opinion and also […]

My Mom is a writer, so she says. I’m a cynic about it because I never see her pick up a pen or pencil, hardly ever anyway.  She’s always in front of a computer, “writing” stuff on the screen with many letters, too small and too hard for me to understand.  I watch her doing […]

Today, in the town of Moola Moola, development was begun on the last piece of open,  unpaved space.  It was a fragment, an abandoned piece of land, long since bull-dozed of its native vegetation. It sat there for decades, getting smaller and smaller as lanes of the adjacent road encroached its footage. Too narrow and […]

Today Howard and I had fried chicken for lunch.  We both had our usual 3 pieces and ate them without the skin. I never eat chicken skin.  I have a gall bladder that takes no prisoners.  Besides, I don’t like lining my arteries with fatty plaque.  So anyway, no gastronomical issues occurred.   At least for […]

The other night, Halloween, was a long night. No sleep for me, whatsoever . I had apprehensive moments all night -dialing in the numbers to call Ralph on the great white intercom. All because I had to go and eat a half a bag of potato chips, followed by chasers of m&m’s, Snickers, Milky Ways, […]

“You should write a book, a humor book. After all, you like to make people laugh,” they said. I thought about it. I blog, so how much harder could it be?  Besides, NaNoWriMo 2018 -National Novel Writing Month  2018- was on its way, I needed to shape up.  One month isn’t very long when it […]

I really hate sweet potatoes. Almost as much as I hate rhubarb. Nutritionists say sweet potatoes are very healthy for you. I bet they’re not. They probably cause something awful – like hammertoe. Sure, they might cure constipation – they have lots of fiber and magnesium. But, I still won’t eat them. Or rhubarb, either, […]