My house
No, no, Jack!
This is Jack. Jack lives at our house. He is very spoiled. We think it’s cute that he is so spoiled. We call it “beloved.” We boast to our friends how Jack gets what Jack wants. This is the new couch. The one thing Jack cannot have. No couch, Jack. No, no! Jack does not [...]
Giving back — and it hurts so good
Let me start with the whining. I didn’t sleep at all last night, judging from my level of lethargy. The caffeine I’ve quaffed hasn’t made a dent at five hours into my day. I have decisions to make and stories to write and I can hardly keep my eyes open. I’m ’bout ready to hike [...]
Asking for a paper life preserver
“We don’t do that.” Honestly? What I was asking for didn’t seem out of the realm of possible, but this city employee me was assuring me her department doesn’t do that. And “that,” dear readers, was stick an old-fashioned paper receipt into the mail for me. For money. Which I transferred from my bank into [...]
Couchaholic? Or sofalicious?
I’ve got a problem. And I’d like to blame Ann AND Annie, if you don’t mind. I know, you’re already confused. Me, too. This started innocently enough. Sort of. A colleague introduced me to a fun website a few months ago, one that posts daily shopping specials of name-brand-designer-and-all-that-hoopla merchandise. Mostly it’s just been fun [...]
A little furry eye candy
Jack and AnnieMae, siblings in the truest sense. Since she was tiny, our cat AnnieMae has loved baskets. When she just an itty-bitty thing, she worked her way to the top of the table and bedded down in the napkin basket. Which, of course, I should declare was disgusting but the truth is we all [...]
Monday, Monday…ants, indoor rock garden and pediatrician recipes
Today we have a potpourri of just schtuff. OK, first things first…I have ants in my bathroom. Lots, and for the first time ever. This weekend I bought and placed ant traps, but I’d sure like to know if these little boogers are doing evil things to my wood. Anyone with ant expertise, please weigh [...]
Dear “neighbor”
You walked by my house again this past week. Right in front of my house, where children skate and ride their bikes. Where elderly folks take a daily stroll and joggers whisper past in the pre-dawn dark…right there, you pulled out a big bottle of whiskey and took a deep drink. For all to see. [...]
MAIL ORDER NAG
You may recall that Amazon.com and I had a very touching moment during the holidays when I screwed up my order, they screwed up my cancellation of the screwed-up order, then they magically made everything right at the very moment I was watching Christmas gifts dissipate into thin air. We salvaged our affair — I [...]
So you think you can appraise
Back in the good ol’ days, when I watched TV on a more regular basis (“Still a much slimmer chunk of time by national comparison,” she said, in a way intended to make her feel superior), I loved catching episodes of PBS’s “Antiques Roadshow.” I don’t have an obsession with antiques but I do have [...]
