(My guy readers can skip this one.) Many years ago a stand-up comedian Roseann Barr had her own television show.  It was the counterpoint...

Whew. Everyone  has eaten too much food and they have finally left in their cars, one family to head home and decorate their house and the...

I sometimes have holidays filled with guests, friends and relatives. Some holidays are quiet as I try to get through them by avoiding the...

Kerredelune brought this to my attention.  Get yourself something 'cool' to drink, put your feet up and listen to this: Manhatte...

I have been watching a retro TV show called Route 66   while resting my ankle in the afternoons. Route 66 was a famous highway in American ...

"In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others," according to ...

Many years ago when my son was a teenager just a year away from college, we had reached that stage that some families reach where you a...

I am standing in the IHop waiting to be seated.  An IHop is not a dance hall nor a kiddie zoo with rabbits, for those who live outside t...

Well, I am guessing the evil spirits of Halloween or the good spirits of All Saints Day have worked their magic as I am almost back to ...

(Monitor lizard at the zoo!  He is a little angry!)

(Being somewhat unable to get around I have pulled up something I wrote a while back and was never going to post.) They came and took th...

It has been eleven days since my careless accident.  The swelling is almost gone!  The pain, while at times unbearable if I twist a certain...

You asked and thus you shall receive...you little Halloween ghouls!  Sorry there isn't more black and bluesing for your blood lust.  (...

I know he is trying to be helpful and showing concern but: I wish he wouldn't ask me if I wanted my morning coffee and then totally fo...

Such a lucky lady I am. I am healing and I can actually feel and see the difference each day. I was religious the first 48 hours in apply...

My mother, when she was a few years younger than I am now, was home alone most of the time since my father continued to work waiting for ful...

Yes, I have changed the mask of my blog. (Don't you love the jig this bird is doing?)  Hope you like it. Photography .  When photograph...

My apologies to the strict and effective writers on my recent sloppy post where I tossed  "person"  or point of view back and fort...

What do you do on a three day weekend?  Plan a BBQ with friends?  Take in dinner and movie with your love?  Sleep?  Finish most of the stuf...

Vacations are learning experiences. I learned that lighting, thunder, and hail will still turn me back from a high mountain hike t...