The presence of extra traffic on the streets (at least near Best Buy) this time of year inspires this week’s Assignment: Weekend Assignment # 347: Car Crazy Some people are car connoisseurs, able to discuss the finer points of 1960 Corvette engines, find or build replacement Model T parts, or argue the merits of the latest high-end Italian sports car. (Okay, maybe it’s not the same person in each of these scenarios, but you get […]
Cross-posted at TheSmartlyLA My son’s been out of college for almost four years. He lives 3000 miles from me, and about 1000 miles away from his dad’s hometown. He’s got a good job, his own apartment (no roommates!), his own activities and interests, and the occasional girlfriend (but not “the girlfriend,” at least not yet). He doesn’t own a car – he has chosen to live in a city where he doesn’t need one – […]
Weekend Assignment # 245: Give Thanks Thanksgiving is upon us, the time of year when we’re asked what we’re thankful for. Let’s take the opportunity to interpret this literally, and actually thank someone! Tell us about someone in your life, past or present, whom you would like to thank for what they did, and why. Given the way the second half of 2010 has gone, it wasn’t hard for me to decide who deserves special […]
If you were on Twitter Saturday afternoon, you might have seen this: @florinda_3rs Florinda Pend.-Vasq. Guess who fell and landed on her right arm AGAIN? Shoulder’s not dislocated this time, but the impact was bad and the whole arm just hurts. Sunday morning’s follow-up: @florinda_3rs Florinda Pend.-Vasq. Arm Injury Update: less pain & more mobility than yesterday, but still needs rest & healing time today. Also, Left-Handed Typist is back! I didn’t visit the ER […]
Growing up, I never thought much of my looks – and no one else seemed to either, except maybe my mom. I stopped growing early, a few inches shy of five feet; I was small all over, actually. But I wore big glasses (which helped hide my somewhat lazy, inward-drifting eyes), and had naturally big hair long before girls spent the ‘80’s trying to achieve it. My mother would tell me I had “good bone […]
Today is the fourth anniversary of the day Tall Paul and I got married. I’ve written about the wedding before, and it’s not like I really have anything new to say about it, so I thought I’d try to find some photos from the day that I don’t think I’ve posted before and share those with you instead. I hope you enjoy them (although, honestly, you probably won’t enjoy them as much as I do!) Click […]
Watching the recent rescue of the Chilean miners on TV prompted The Stiletto Mom to reflect on where she’d been during other history-making events. She got me thinking, too. I’ve taken the lead from some of the events she mentioned (which are marked with a *), but added in a couple of my own. March 1981: President Reagan was shot in the lung by John Hinckley, Jr.*: That was my junior year of high school, and I think […]
(..well, I sort of am, today – this is cross-posted at TheSmartlyLA.) One thing I’ve been pleased to discover as I’ve become more active online is that I’m not the only one in the world who doesn’t like using the phone. It’s been a revelation to learn that the “phone phobia” I’ve struggled with for years is more common than I’d known – and definitely more widespread than those who’ve urged me to “just get […]
This Friday, October 8, it will be eleven years since my mom, Mary Ann, passed away. A resident of St. Petersburg, Florida for 22 years, she was 69 years old at the time of her death. She was survived by her husband, two adult daughters, and one teenage grandson. We’re left to remember. But our family had lost her well before that. For over seven years, she had been living in a nursing home, incapacitated […]
I’ve always read almost everything I can get my hands on. I have a serious bookstore problem addiction habit due to my irrational fear of not having my next book at hand right away after I finish the current one. I became a daily newspaper reader at a pretty young age, and fleshed out the headlines with news magazines when I got older. Magazines were also there when I decided I actually might not want […]
I promise this isn’t going to be a major whine-and-cheese party. There are just a few things making me grumbly lately, so I thought I’d inflict them on share them with y’all. Twitter is blocked at work. Well, twitter.com has been blocked for awhile, actually (as has Facebook), but I’ve been able to keep up with the conversation via Twittergadget through Gmail. No more – the firewall discovered TGadget last Tuesday and kicked it outside. […]
I’ve been to New York City twice this summer, and I’ve yet to get to the Strand Bookstore! It was actually on the list of things Melissa and I wanted to do when we were in the City for BlogHer’10 last weekend, but between a pretty full conference agenda and my inability to follow the walking directions I got from Google Maps, it didn’t happen. But don’t feel too sorry for me – I came […]
