Does your kid have a “junk drawer”?   I took a break from transcribing this morning to have a look at what my 7-year-old has been hoarding in the top drawer of her bedside table. A journal my mom gave her, which she has filled with hundreds of words (which I have not read….. what kind of … Continue reading Junior Junk Drawer

Today is the day!A tournament of balls.All men and 1 womanCome to throw in these halls.It is loud, very loud - Like the rolling of thunder,Though not earth and clouds,But 10 pins falling under.Old men, young menAnd those in between.Tall ones, short onesFat ones and lean.Not a spectator sport,Or athletes on tv.This isn't a sportGroupies group … Continue reading A Seussical Ode to Bowling

(Important background information:  For fun, I submitted my Facebook profile page and it later appeared on my local news station’s Facebook Flash segment and “B,”  with whom I went to high school, saw it as it aired and sent me a message about it.  Todd, who does ad work for my mom, used one of … Continue reading Conversations with Todd – Episode 1

I saw this video yesterday, from Upworthy on Facebook.  It was about how kids grow up, the secrets they keep, the beatings they take – both mental or physical, both self-inflicted and perpetrated by others, the bullying, the self-doubt, and the inability to see the beauty in themselves.  As most things seem to do these … Continue reading Just One More Thing To Worry About

So,  we are renting a house (and an old one at that) – it had a dinosaur in the basement, that we believed to be burning up half the state of Pennsylvania’s electricity  usage.  So, our landlord decided to replace the dinosaur with propane heat – apparently more efficient and cheaper.   A few weeks later, … Continue reading Gas For the Soul

1.  All the people who think it’s a good idea to shovel junk into kids for every gad dang holiday and birthday.  Just last week, I got a call from the school nurse that my daughter’s class will be having a guest reader and that “Guest” brought treats for the kids.  The choices? A Tootsie … Continue reading 10 Things That Piss Me Off

Legal process is slooooow.  And expensive.  But expensive because it’s slow.   And I’ve had enough of it.  For my part, it is over.  I have no desire to ever, ever see the inside of any courthouse for as long as I live.  But I won’t be so naïve to assume the day will never come … Continue reading What I Learned This Year

Some days are like this.  I am normally a positive, upbeat, full of faith person of reasonable intelligence.  But we all have those days, the days when you wake up and forget to thank God for His blessings and another day to find joy.  It makes you wonder what you were dreaming about, before the … Continue reading Rock Bottom Day

Revelations, Long Overdue and What I Learned Since Last Time:November 6th came and went.  The wrong candidate won.  The right candidate won.  And twenty-four days later, nothing has changed.  The world did not go to hell in a hand basket.  The woman that cut me off at the elementary school today, who thinks she’s better … Continue reading Lovers, Bloodsuckers, and Nonsense

Rigor mortis usually contorts their furry little bodies in Picasso-esque poses.  The body is lying flat on the ground, all except for that one limb that juts skyward as if in its last desperate reach for heaven.If it’s been long enough, there’s not much left of it but some bloody tufts of fur pasted to … Continue reading Why Roadkill Is Funny