Here it is Monday again and time for another guest post from Slim Randles since I have nothing to write about. The news, along current affairs, are just too depressing. Plus, I’ve been sick for a week. UGH! I sure wish Slim had been a contributor to newspapers and blogs way back when I did […]
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I’m still knee deep in unpacking and settling into my new house. The one room I thought had no more boxes to unpack and was finished except for artwork and curtains, now has boxes of said artwork on the floor, waiting for someone with a hammer to show up at my front door. 🙂 My
Happy Monday everyone. I’m still busy unpacking and setting up my new home. Had a walk-in shower installed on Saturday and happy that one major project is finished. Having workers in the house for several days really stressed my senior cat. She was anxious and vomited several times on Saturday, but was better on Sunday.
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Moving day is getting closer, so this will probably be my last blog post until after I’m settled in the new house. During my sorting and packing I’ve come across a few of my newspaper columns that I wrote for many years when my husband and I were raising our family. The kids were young
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The following is an excerpt from my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck. The book is a collection of the humor columns I used to write for the Plano Star Courier, a suburb of Dallas. A number of readers had suggested I put them together in a book, and a number of years later
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No words for the insanity in politics. Absolutely no words. So to keep us all in a relatively peaceful place with blood pressure in close to normal ranges and no panic attacks pending, I’ll let Slim Randles entertain us with a fun story about Old Man Jenkins and cats. Enjoy!!! Let’s ask a hypothetical question
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My life and my house are literally in turmoil. I’m in the process of getting my house ready to put on the market, so I have a lot of decluttering to do to “stage” it for pictures for the listing. I’ve never been an uncluttered kind of person. You can ask my older sister who
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It’s been a crazy, eventful month and I’m still reeling emotionally from the death of my good friend, followed closely by the death of my brother-in-law. Plus, I’ve had to make some major decisions affecting me personally, so at times I feel like my emotions are being turned into a dinner salad. It’s hard to
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Last week, I posted about the death of my friend, Flo, and said I’d share more of our fun times together in future blog posts. So, here it is. Most of the following is taken from a column I used to write for a newspaper in a suburb of Dallas. For a while I was
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So, the other morning I’m getting dressed while listening to a podcast, and I hear the journalist reference a woman in labor as, “Extruding a baby. ” Not sure what I’d heard, I dropped the shoe I was about to put on and rewound 30 seconds to listen again. Sure enough instead of talking about
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