Other than death of friends and family, and having to sit across the table from several people and tell them their jobs were no more, there have been two very traumatic events in my life in the past year…scarring and frightening events. I’m not a frail spirit.  Give me an emerg… Read full post »

Dear OSers…I wish I knew who to give credit to for this! I received this in an email and I am STILL laughing! What a great example of differing writing styles, to say the least! This gulf between writers with differing styles happens to be probably gender based...What do you think???… Read full post »

Last night on NPR, (most busy days the only source of any new knowledge I download into my brain), they posed the question Why Does Time Fly As You Get Older…

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122322542

I was happy to hear that one of the proposed theories… Read full post »

Aperitif....the forgotten beverage

Not that I am a party animal by any stretch, but the beverage choices seem to be wine, microbrew and 97 kinds of martinis these days...  

Ready for something different? Who couldn't use another adult beverage during the holidays??

In Europe I learned the luxury… Read full post »

What is it about girls and horses? For me it was the possibility of escape! Maybe not your typical connection, but it made my teen years bearable!

When I was young I was blessed to have a horse…saved up my babysitting money and bought a big old boy…for those of… Read full post »

I go to big box stores, like Costco,  for one reason – to save money.  What happens? I always spend too much! Me in a big box store is a recipe for disaster to my sanity and my budget.  Here are some of the reasons I hate big box stores:

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Going though old pictures over the weekend, the concept of karma popped into my head.  I wonder what exactly karma has done to me…Here's what I came up with:

1. Karma is probably why I can’t have kids.  This occurred to me when I saw the picture of 3 year old
   
   
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One good thing about trendy burbs is the great restaurants.  Not a lot of good little neighborhood spots like a real city, but some tasty faire.  Our neighborhood Applebee’s may have folded in the economic downturn, but our trendy burb bistros are booming! Our personal economic downtu… Read full post »

Of course Tiger Sonora isn’t my real name.  I was merely desperate to start my blog…you get impulsive again if you are a woman of a certain age you know. 

Remember that email that went around awhile back — how to figure out your porn name? The name of your first… Read full post »

Aloha" means we welcome you,
It means more than words can say.
"Aloha" means good luck to you,
Goodnight at the close of day.

For it's just like a love song
With a haunting sweet refrain
Bringing you joy, bringing you pain.

"Aloha" means farewell to you
Until we meet again.

Dear World,

Recently I said… Read full post »

My posts are gone. My blogs are gone. To those who made nasty, hateful comments about my posts, your words are gone.  Thank you to those that were constructive -- even if we didn't  see eye to eye.  And thank you to all of you whose posts I enjoyed so much...you made… Read full post »