Image credit: Photo by canonsnapper on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons It's summer: the season of kids around 24/7 and of subsequent blog neglect. It's also the season of summer visitors, passing through in cars bulging with luggage, fast food wrappers and warm, disheveled smiles. While some people like to do spring cleaning to prepare [...]
Posts under ‘you’re supposed to laugh now’
Impatient Haiku
Praying for patience. Praying... Waiting... Stupid God! I want patience now!
Help! Bill Gates Is Coming!
Image credit: Photo by Stuck in Customs on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Periodically, news stories send me into a panic. Do I need to order a truck load of face masks before that flu pandemic hits? Is that TSA security person going to have to strip search me now that some guy tried to [...]
How to Change Anyone!
I was browsing around Target the other day, when I came across the most fabulous book I have seen in a long, long time: How to Change Someone You Love: Four Steps to Help You Help Them. I laughed the kind of laugh that ought to have sent flocks of birds scattering in alarm. Instead [...]
Haiku Rhyme
Should a haiku rhyme? Or is that a Seuss-like crime? Maybe this one time...
Busting my Grocery Bag
Image credit: Photo by fixlr on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My husband Mark cannot take care of himself. Really, the man cannot even keep track of what he likes. I have to do it for him. I present as evidence the last few weeks of grocery shopping. Last week, Mark was sick, and I [...]
My Muse
Image credit: Photo by Ape Lad on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "You know," joked my husband Mark, "I think you ought to be paying me royalties. You wouldn't have anything to write about without me..." "I know. It's true. That's the sad life of a codependent. My problem is being all wrapped up in [...]
One of Those Days
Image credit: Photo by k a t m Licensed under Creative Commons I sort of want to write a post today, but I sort of want to curl up under a blanket and watch the leaves fall more. Of course, I say that, all romantic, with this great image of myself curled up with a [...]
When Yelling Works
Image credit: Photo by Scream 101 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons There's a reason I'm not a journalist. It's one of those jobs you always think about, if you're one of those people (like me) who has considered careers in writing. But I always saw two problems with it: 1) I need to let [...]
When You Have a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail
Image credit: Art by [ Leah ] on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My husband Mark and I may be spending too much time talking about issues related to addiction and recovery, as it has lead to a series of double takes in recent years... A friend told me that a computer geek she works [...]
