THANKS FOR NOTHIN’!!

I have a beautiful, precious baby girl who’s now eight (I have another beautiful, precious baby girl who’s six, but this story isn’t about her). When she was little, Cinderella was the QUEEN of the Universe. We practically wore out the VCR tape that my friend loaned me. Since my kids don’t [...]

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What IF?!?

I saw this

and it cracked me up. What IF God turns out to be a giant chicken? I suppose I’ll have some explaining to do for all that KFC, huh?

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Tenth Annual

Feast of the Autumnal Equinox.
This is a picture from 2001, but you get the idea. I’ll give you a recap of today’s events later this weekend….

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Walking a Mile….

Okay. So we’re in the midst of a HUGE addition project on our home. HUGE. Like, DOUBLING the original floor space. There’s dust and dirt and big ole man-footprints everywhere (and when I say “everywhere,” I’m not engaging in hyperbole, either. There’s a big ole man-footprint on the kitchen counter, [...]

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We Can Put a Man on the Moon….

…but we can’t figure out how to cure - or for that matter, avoid - the common cold.
I am currently stumbling through my life with a remarkable pressure behind my face and a throat that feels as though it’s been stuffed with wool threads (that occaisonally catch fire, by the way). I’m congested and [...]

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Cruise Control is a Magic Decoder Ring…

…that reveals morons on the highway.
Seriously.
I have a fifty minute commute from my home to my work. Most of that commute happens on a hilly, two-lane highway with a 65 mile an hour speed limit. Usually, I ramp up my little car to about seventy-five and set the cruise control. [...]

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When You Put It THAT Way…

…it looks so pretty. This:

is my name in Elvish. I was goofing around on the computer the other day whilst Clyde watched the baseball game, and came upon a site that promised to teach me how to write my name in Elvish in ten minutes or less (wow. People have a LOT [...]

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