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Miami firefighter crews sailed in and out of our ER all day and into the night, playing the Miami Beach National Anthem - what we jokingly called the ambulance sirens.  They were our extended co-workers in the field and we hung out drinking coffee we could… Read full post »

I know everyone has wanted a peek at Squirrel's Wifeasaurus for quite some time.  I snuck in and grabbed a snap just recently, but don't see any fresh blood on the knuckles, so I guess Squirrel must be takin it like a man-Squirrel.  Preggers and all, still purty cute. Read full post »

‘What goes around, comes around’ events that I’ve forgotten are too numerous to count, but in my latest pack-and-move a long buried cartoon illustration made me laugh and connect with some karma in my own life since I‘m usually making a sassy reference to s… Read full post »

I don't claim to know where this started but if I've gone to the trouble to copy this from someone else who has inadvertently challenged my status as the last person to post or comment on anything on OS, I'm gonna answer the damned thing.

1. Who was your FIRST prom… Read full post »

  Photo courtesy of Giovanni Sades

I wear a watch.  I don't know why but I do which makes it all the more difficult to make up excuses for my latitude attitude on getting to the church and too many to count other places on time.   Even here on&n… Read full post »

Oh, it was about 19blah-blah-blah-blah and I was in Miss McCoy's class.   I liked her.  I mean she didn't pick on me, she didn't pick me either but that was OK.  I just wanted to stay invisible in the 5th grade.  I mean all kinds of horrific stuff was about to/… Read full post »

Flickr Photo credit to Elise-Claire

My world is rapidly shrinking to 14 x 9.   Ms. Minitop, who gets big ups for being a quiet, neat and considerate roomie, prefers a relatively inexpensive brand of red wine, while I'm more of a Sauvignon Blanc… Read full post »

For those of us who swing this way, is this H.O.T. or is it just me outing us since I'm the one he's having the affair with?  Maybe it's my fascination with the shirt to jacket exchange in every 'Nightmares' episode, which is just stupid, because I can testify… Read full post »

I've  moved 4 times  between Valentines and Memorial Day this year. WTF, you say.  Must be one bad tenant, skivin men up the fire escape every hour on the hour, selling questionable baggies out the side door, maybe she has 6 dogs and 8 cats stinkin and tearin… Read full post »

I'm so carried away with the read, then am COMPELLED to comment, that returning to the top of the post and 'rating' it gets lost in the excitement.  

I KNOW I'm not the only newly converted OS member that reads, and reads and reads -- then doesn't rate.… Read full post »

A couple of interesting posts have sent me over the edge this week...smarmy was a perfect question to ask oneself as in JK Brady's post, b/c if you spend that much time in meditation (I wish I had that opportunity and that guru) and then are… Read full post »

I’ve hammered myself several times recently after joining this open forum for musing, ranting, reading and writing.  So effortlessly does rumination run off my finger tips, that I smack SEND as though I’ve just knocked an IM over the net to one of my kids.  E/… Read full post »

I don’t say ‘owned’ because one never owns a B & B and when I look down in a contemplative moment I can still see the marks in my feet, you know, from where they were nailed to the floor by the B & B. 

It was just a dream. … Read full post »

 I  found it!  A Guide to Intelligent Life.  Thanks to a reflective blogger on another  informational site I flip through now and then.  I'm actually testing this banner making thing here...may be a bust, but glad to have found OS. Read full post »