Perhaps I watch too much TV, something some of my friends would agree with, and some would not. However, it does broaden my horizons, because, in the normal course of events, accountants sit around and listen to stories from others and don’t do much exciting on their own. This… Read full post »

Back when Stew was alive and living in Washington, January 10^th was celebrated with all the pomp and circumstance possible, considering the circumstances. January 10^th was Stew’s birthday, another milestone achieved under somewhat arduous conditions. Stew stopped celebrating birthdays in 2008,… Read full post »

I have seen the new Nexus One and I think I need one. Charming husband says not so much, but what does he know? After all, he’s the one who told me about it. He tells me things and expects me to ignore them? He should know better. At first I… Read full post »

Everyone has their own Christmas miracle story. Mine is the miraculous ability of packing tape to stop the loss of blood when one has been stupid enough to use a mandolin without reading the instructions.

I never read instructions. One would think, if one were a rational… Read full post »

(Written on the plane. Currently between destinations at an unnamed airport.)

We stand in first class, the proverbial sardines in a tin can, except we aren’t sardines, not quite, just people attempting to find our seats on an overbooked, overstuffed plane, where only one of the indignities is… Read full post »

I am doing a fabulous job of not dealing with Mom’s death, in case you were wondering. In fact, so good am I at not dealing with it that I think I may have surpassed my earlier records for not dealing with things. It takes a certain set of skills to… Read full post »

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 »