It is midmorning and I just finished doing three loads of laundry, vacuuming all the German Shedder hair floofs up from the entire house – including under the furniture — and mopping the floors. Big deal, most of you would say. Well, I am here to tell you it IS a big deal. I […]
I used to scoff at people who ran to the doctor at the first sign of a sniffle, or rushed off for X-rays every time they slid out the back steps in the rain. Suck it up, Buttercup. Don’t be a weenie. Go drink some Echinacea tea for the sniffle. As for that possible broken […]
How often in a day do you get a text from somebody, especially young somebodies, that you have to decipher? It’s like a paragraph of acronyms. But worse. It’s TextSpeak. Or would that be txt spk? Not only do they not use real words, they see no need for capitalization or punctuation. “hi c u […]
I remember daytime television back in those early years when I was a stay-at-home mom. Not that I got to see much of it because you don’t sit still when you have young children lying, crawling, toddling, and running about. However, at nap time, I could set up the ironing board and watch a soap […]
I keep getting notices in the mail from my insurance informing me that I can save time and energy by not bothering to go to a clinic when I am sick. I can just call up Teladoc. Right! If I want someone to just guess what may be wrong, I can call my sister. I […]
You hear so many stories about the tiny house movement and about retirees (and people of all ages, for that matter) who sell everything and go traveling around the country in an RV. It has an allure, you know? Simplifying, adventure—the call of the wild. Scott and I answered that call recently. Well, we at […]
Things have taken a definite shift. Downward? That remains to be seen. Some friends and I are going to a theater production and decided to meet beforehand for an early dinner. Nothing surprising there. However, in discussing dinner plans, someone said, “Yes, let’s meet early enough to have a leisurely dinner and a glass of […]
I was sitting in the dentist’s office, patiently waiting to be called back for a filling when my cell phone rang. It was my chiropractor’s office. “Good morning, Ms. Pittman.” “Good morning?” This was said with a lift at the end, as I wasn’t used to being called by my chiropractor just for a chat. […]
I learned some important things during my recent trip to North Carolina –the truth of the law of attraction (also understood as the power of positive/negative thinking) and the veracity of the premise that you learn who you are and what is important to you in an emergency. This latter can be understood as “When […]
Now, I’ve never been an activist. I am somewhat apolitical, or at least laissez faire. I live by the Paul Simon credo: “I get all the news I need from the weather report.” Don’t be haters. There is room in this world for Simonites. But my point is that all of that has changed. I […]