Today is my birthday, and I made myself the best pizza ever.  I have not had any since going gluten-free.  So first of all, here is a recipe for all-purpose flour that will make your gluten-free life so much easier.  I've found on the internet lots of gluten-free recipes but they… Read full post »

No entertaining video, but you can read the lyrics which to me are very happy because they're not completely happy, but it sounds like a happy way to spend some time, on a mattress in a basement watching dirty movies with a guy with a shady past who is… Read full post »

I did not want to get up this morning.  I wanted to lie in bed and look at my cat and dog sleeping at the foot of my bed and pet them with my feet.  I did not want to take a shower or type or dust the furniture or sweep… Read full post »

Let me just state from the outset that I was raised in a family of yellers.  I grew up in central New York and as Rachel Ray said on David Letterman the other day, she and her husband are excitable and they yell, and she never realized how bad it was… Read full post »

Why am I so lucky you ask?  Well let me enlighten you.  The other night it was dark and I was taking my garbage to the dumpster as I often do, and I took my dog with me.  The dumpsters here are kept behind wooden enclosures and there sitting leaning up… Read full post »

Alice was 7, Dori 5, and Jack was 3 that weekend in 1964 when the three siblings went to stay with their Grandma Helen and Grandpa Gary for a few days.  Where their parents had been is long forgotten as they rarely went anywhere without the children but stayed in their small… Read full post »

There is no post.  Sorry.  I just want that recipe. Read full post »

In my dream she was lying lifeless at the foot of my bed.  I called her and nudged her body but she never responded and so I knew she was dead.  In the dream I told everyone I knew my dog had died and that I was heartbroken but I didn't… Read full post »

"Well apparently back when the white settlers came onto this land and told the Natives here to leave they refused to do so. So after much fighting the Natives were almost wiped out and forced to leave, letting the white settlers have their land. But just after a few years mass… Read full post »

After driving for nearly two full hours, the Bluewood family made a left turn onto the dirt road that would lead them to their intended destination just before crossing the bridge over Lake Sorrow. It just so happens Lake Sorrow has a small campsite that is perfect for city dwellers wh… Read full post »

There is a lot to be upset about lately with craziness reigning supreme when I for one thought things would be getting better and they are not.  I comfort myself with the thought that I believe we have a real human being in the White House now instead of a sociopath… Read full post »

"Hi Betty.  Let's drink coffee and smoke for a few hours, then go to the grocery store.  I love knotty pine."

God, I'm boring. Read full post »

This is Fayard skiing.  You cannot really see him, but you can see the top of his head and his walker stuck to a pair of skis.  Ingenious.

Fayard right before his shunt surgery in the NICU.

I am actually not sure how old he is here.  Maybe… Read full post »

So it's hotter than hell at 9:00 a.m. and you get up and there is no cranberry juice or ice tea or sugar because you and your children can't seem to stop yourselves from consuming groceries, what do you do?  Also I should mention that I live in an apartment complex… Read full post »

We found out that Fayard's condition was not cosmetic, it was the real thing and he would have difficulty walking, at least.  He's never really walked, only in his standing frame and as one doctor told us:  "You can put him in metal up to his armpits but I don't call that… Read full post »

I've written about my son, Fayard (changed it from DB, because I like the name Fayard after Fayard Nicholas) a few times here and even posted his photo (though he was heavily made up in Maori warrior makeup), so people who read my blog are pretty familiar with him.  He was born… Read full post »

It would have been a life-changing experience for me.  All would have marveled at my eye for fashion and my taste in music and entertainment.  Witty remarks I made off the cuff would have had my OS cohorts tittering for days and all would adore me in Vegas as they do in… Read full post »

This is the post where I make a list of all the people I like on OS and all the people I don't.  Here goes. 

No, that would never happen.  Christ, can you imagine.    But oddly enough, there are people on here whom I adore and some I don't particularly… Read full post »

I never used to eat beets before until I tried Ardee's Roasted Roots, and I discover that beets are filling, healthy and delicious.  So I went looking for more beet recipes and found this one.  It's so good.   You will need:

3 large beets or more
1/2 onion
crisp tart apple
some green… Read full post »

Well this post will probably not attract many viewers and I understand that completely.  I'm not the greatest writer and never really aspired to be, but I empathized with a lot of writers here, those who shared glimpses into their private lives, which I love.  And I think a lot of… Read full post »

i can handle all the hell that happens everyday/when you smile and touch my face and make it all just go away

i know there ain't no finish line/i know this never ends/I'm just learning how to fall, climb back up again...Everclear

This is just a quick… Read full post »

I see you changed the name of your blog.  Here's to ya.