I don’t know about you, but this does not rank up very high on my list of Fun Things To Do.

So here’s the situation. Mom is fading fast. Really, what else is there to know? I drove over to Montana from Washington yesterday (was that only yesterday?), my… Read full post »

Last week I emailed an assortment of my mom’s friends and relatives, using a list of emails my sister sent me from mom’s computer. I had no names to associate with these email addresses, and when someone has an email address like “HoneyBunny7” there’s really no way to te… Read full post »

There's no draft to this post. It is what it is. My laptop has died in a horrible household accident, and the Word on my desktop is flaky at best and totally unreliable at worst, and my work schedule has prevented me from having the appropriate guru log in to… Read full post »

 First of all, I know nothing about skydiving. It had never occurred to me, until recently, that it was something I would even do. I could never do something that . . . scary. After all, as so many have said to me, why jump out of a perfectly good… Read full post »

Someone sent me a dirty look the other day. I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't know what to do with it. I'm even more embarrassed to admit that I wasn't sure if the poor woman was suffering from constipation or a particularly nasty flu bug. How can you tell? I would… Read full post »

Realizing I was in no condition to get to my destination this night, I decided I’d better call ahead to let my mom and stepdad know I wouldn’t be showing up, and then find a place to stay for the night. This would be a fairly easy task in my normal… Read full post »

Onward, But Not Necessarily Upward

By the time I reached Montana proper it was dark and rainy. Doesn’t this sound like the perfect beginning of a best selling novel? “It was a dark and stormy night . . . “ Maybe not. But it was dark and raining when I pulled… Read full post »

The First Step Of My Journey

On the first part of my journey into the darkness (though it was still morning, but how scary does that sound?), I stopped for breakfast. I try to do that occasionally, stop and eat real food, as it’s far too easy to indulge in… Read full post »

You might ask what’s been getting into me lately. I’m peeved, that’s what. I’m peeved because my mom has cancer and it’s spread to her spine from her liver, which, as it was, couldn’t be cured, could only be slowed down with chemo,but she’d been doing well on… Read full post »

There are more pressing issues, but we'll go into those at a later time. Today we'll focus on a recent experience that has all the hallmarks of being perpetrated by Satan, if one were to believe in such a guy, which I don't, at least not in the traditional method.… Read full post »

I have known you all your life. Fifty years – how can that be? I don't know about you, little brother, but it doesn't seem very likely that either of us could be this age yet, and since I'm older, I'm obviously way over 50. Or slightly over. That… Read full post »

Or, for that matter, any kind of wild animal.

Thank you.

I appreciate your cooperation.

I really do.

And for your information, not that you asked, I don’t stalk younger men in order to sink my talon-like claws into them and drag them back to my den.… Read full post »

I get all my news from only the most trusted sources, so it must be true. After all, the Federal Reserve Chairman said it himself, and who would know better than he? I, for one, am greatly relieved to hear this. Whew, that was a close one, wasn’t it?

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Uncle Pete dropped dead the other day at the age of 86, avoiding the long drawn-out dying process that seems so prevalent these days. He was still golfing occasionally, though not at the same breakneck pace as he was say, two years ago. He was healthy, until his heart stopped… Read full post »

Do you keep in regular contact with it? Give it a call now and then, just to make sure it’s still around and hasn’t departed in a huff because it feels unloved and unwanted?

Not me. I know where mine is, now that it needs to be replaced. I… Read full post »

Sometimes friends come and sometimes they go. Sometimes, like when your husband develops mental illness, they fade away, merging back into the blackness of the past as if they’d never been there at all. That was okay with me – I was busy anyway, taking care of Stew and myself… Read full post »

Which we weren’t, but here’s an update nonetheless.

Mr. M’s volunteer returned from her vacation, and I stopped visiting. Nothing against Mr M, I thought he was adorable, but I needed some time to take care of some business things, and I was running myself ragged. That, and… Read full post »

It wouldn’t have occurred to me to blog about rearranging my office if my friend Mark, who has longed to be in my blog for months, hadn’t I said I would. So this is for you, Mark. Can’t say I never did anything for you now, can  you?

Today I… Read full post »

Looking online today for the location of a hamburger place (one which shall remain nameless as I don’t want a crowd next time I’m in the mood for a hamburger), I decided to look at the FAQ for said hamburger place. Hours later, I’m still amused by one question in particular.… Read full post »

Life was not particularly easy for me at the age of seven, despite the mythology about childhood being so much fun that we want to constantly relive it. For one thing, I abhorred milk, unless it had Hershey’s in it. Could not abide the stuff, and still can’t. It’s .… Read full post »

I went to see Mr M yesterday, a day so hot that I’d rather have been indoors and not in my car, especially since my car is currently lacking air conditioning. Hot is a relevant term, since some people are quite happy in the sort of weather that makes me… Read full post »

Last week I went to see Mr. M a total of three times. Wednesday I asked if he wanted to go outside, it being a cooler day. I’d given him his M&M’s, not just one bag, but four, in case one wasn’t enough. I’d started with five, but ate one before… Read full post »

Upon reflecting on today’s events, it occurred to me that I should start with the beginning. However, the beginning was possibly the most interesting part of the day, so once I start with that, what will I do?

Today I woke up late. This is common for me, as… Read full post »