The Hernando De Soto Bridge (I-40 between Memphis TN and West Memphis AR) Image via Wikipedia This is the time of year when I get most nostalgic for the city where my son grew up, and which I still think of as my hometown, although it’s been four years since my last visit. May is usually a fine time to be in Memphis, but this year there’s something besides the Beale Street Music Festival and […]
Image via Wikipedia This post was originally published on the now-defunct Los Angeles Moms Blog in May 2010, and has been lightly re-edited for posting here. I hope you had a lovely Mother’s Day. It was pretty much an ordinary Sunday for me. Due to certain oddities of the calendar and the custody schedule, it seems that more often than not, my husband’s kids have been with him on Father’s Day…and on Mother’s Day. I […]
Surprisingly normal-looking, aren’t they? Folks waiting for the doors to open at the Anaheim Comic Con, 4/30/2011 The physical-therapy practice I went to following my shoulder surgery, like many others in that business, also has a lot of sports-medicine patients, and there’s a definite athletic vibe about the place, particularly from the folks who work there. Most of them are young, male, and keep the TV constantly tuned to SportsCenter or one game or another. […]
Saturday was a busy day for Tall Paul and me. We started early with a drive to Orange County to spend some time at the Wizard World Comic Con in Anaheim. I didn’t find it quite as much fun as last year’s; it wasn’t my first time, the programming was a bit different…and now I have San Diego Comic-Con to compare it with. It wasn’t the best trade for the Los Angeles Times Festival of […]
Image by kevindooley via Flickr If I still watched the soaps, I’d feel this development more than I do, but it still makes me feel sad and a bit displaced to know that ABC is cancelling All My Children and One Life to Live. It’s been over twenty years since I watched them much, but starting much too young and through my post-college years, I had a pretty serious soap-opera habit. It started in my […]
I received this original artwork this past weekend as a belated birthday gift from my mother-in-law. “Happily Ever Now,” original collage by Jason Mraz, 2011 She personally delivered the gift to me on Saturday when she came to spend Easter with us; the artist had personally delivered it to her just a day or two earlier. He’s a friend and neighbor of hers who created this original collage to be auctioned in a fundraiser organized […]
There are stories I don’t tell here because they really aren’t mine to tell, but sometimes I find myself thinking about them anyway, and that’s what led me down this particular path…in search of an angle from which there might be a story I could claim and tell. After almost 27 years as an only child, yesterday my son just became a big brother to a baby sister. (NOT from me – I would have […]
My Twitter/Facebook update last Thursday morning, March 24: My birthday is STILL 3/29, even if my office thinks it’s 3/24 and my insurance company thinks it’s 3/17. It’s been 3/29 all my life. Seriously. One of my co-workers wished me “Happy Birthday” on Thursday, and I told her she was a little early, since it wasn’t till Tuesday. The birthday list posted in the copy room had it wrong. Just days before my shoulder surgery […]
The current Weekly Geeks theme revisits one of Dewey’s original topics for the meme: Ten Things About Books and YOU. Here are mine: The current population of TBR Purgatory is 326. I give up book-buying for Lent every year, and this year it’s been surprisingly easy to stick to it. For one thing, I’m getting better about wish-listing books so I won’t forget I’m interested in them, but I think the bigger factor is that I’m […]
Have you had Words with your Friends yet? A few weeks ago, my son told me he’d downloaded the Words With Friends game for his iPhone, but since I didn’t have a smartphone of my own at the time, I was unable to do anything with that bit of information. That changed last Friday. Words With Friends was one of the first apps I got for my brand-new iPhone (free with ads, but there’s an […]
I almost didn’t post on Friday, and I missed the Sunday Salon yesterday. Being back at the office every day (at the busiest time of year) and starting physical therapy last week (which means I leave the office an hour early three days a week) have really cut into the time I have for blog business. Preparing posts for my Blogiversary this week and getting caught up on review writing are my current priorities, so […]
Image via Wikipedia The Women’s Museum, Fair Park, Dallas, Texas “Milestones in Women’s History” exhibit (I originally had this scheduled for a different day, but it works out well that I bumped it, as it’s appearing on the 100th International Women’s Day.) March is Women’s History Month – a time to reflect on where we’ve been and consider where we go next. As the saying goes, those who forget history are doomed to repeat it…or […]
