Clutter is metastatic, it spreads itself everywhere and into places you would never expect to find it. You might not notice it, but it’s there, sometimes even out of sight,…
Mother’s Day Cake…No Consolation Here. 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
You read about all those good things that writers should do to be productive. And then there all the things a writer shouldn’t do, bad habits that lead to non-writing. …
. I’ve heard a lot of people complain about the political insiders in government. They believe elected officials who spend a long time in office become ineffective. But I’m not…
I was watching somebody do something incredibly stupid the other day. And I wondered just how stupid can somebody get? How low can they go? There must be some law…
It’s more than a week since the end of the Erma Bombeck Writers Conference 2014. I came back to South Florida so elated. How else can you feel when you’ve…
This week I had an important reminder that I was not immortal. One of Murphy’s Laws hit me right upside my head: “If everything is going right, you must have…
Most South Floridians have accents that originated from the Northeast. They do not and probably never will “speak southern”. But, since understanding each other is part of daily civility,…
Reunions bring out the worst in me. My facebook site is full of posts on an upcoming high school reunion. I haven’t decided whether or not to go. I just…
Today, the mail brought an advertisement from a prominent medical bulletin. I won’t say who it was, but you’ve probably received at least a few, if not too many. They…
Over crowding causes anger issues. I could do free castrations… with a butter knife. Hell, I’d even use two bricks for anesthesia. As if being on a crowded roadway isn’t bad…
My husband, Howard, says Barmy Bottom isn’t really a hollow, it’s more like a slough. Hollows, he says, are Tennessee and this is Florida. Nonsense, I say. This house…
