I’ve become accustomed over the years to being at odds with life. It’s not something that happened to me all at once, but rather gradually as I was introduced to new ways of thinking. Each wave of “new thinking” was explored and considered, and led me to another wave. All the waves were related to […]
I don’t read as much as I used to. Growing up, I was a bookworm. I read encyclopedias for fun! I was always reading, and the ladies at the public library knew me by name. My mother used to give me grief for always having my nose in a book. But I can’t tell you […]
Someone called and asked what I was doing to ring in the new year tonight. “Going to bed early!” was my response. Despite staying up to “watch the ball drop” over several New Year’s Eves, I have never enjoyed the hoopla. That stuff just bores me. And now that my kids are grown, I enjoy […]
So many people battle with depression between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The holiday blues often push people over the edge. Whether it’s the financial crunch of feeling pressured to buy, buy, buy during the holidays, or nostalgia from holidays past, or just the fatigue of the hustle and bustle, it seems to touch everyone. But I […]
This is the time when everyone seems to be doing a look back over the events of the almost-past year, recapping the highlights. I have a really tough time doing this! I am just not wired for remembering the past with any great detail. I tend to live in the present and anticipate the future, […]
In my younger days when CB radio was in vogue, my handle was “Pennypincher.” I love being thrifty. Just as men like game hunting, I love bargain hunting. The key with anything you want is being willing to wait for it. If you have to have it right now, you will probably pay top dollar […]
From the mailbag this morning. Got this laughable spam from someone with an apparently poor grasp of English: “When emergency appears you always thank your wisdom and clear mind that make you spare smackers for rainy days. Having a solid amount of smackers in your account or several wads of smackers in the distant corner […]
I love spring and fall, the two moderate seasons. This week’s weather change with the drier air and clearer skies (unless you count the chemtrails) is so refreshing. Just makes you feel like moving and doing things, unlike summer and winter that make you feel like sitting still. This has been a very odd summer, […]
I’ve been on the roads a bit more than usual this week, and have been encountering drivers on the wrong side of the road with frightening regularity. Either we’ve had an invasion of European tourists, or people are driving with too many distractions. The back roads in these hills are unforgiving, and sliding across to […]
Last month my husband, who’s always the hale and hearty one who never gets sick, came down with Lyme disease. He found a small bump that looked like a mosquito bite, and two days later it was a reddened area the size of his hand with a dark ring around it. One of those surefire […]
The world is becoming a weird place. Not just because we’re all getting older, but because everything with which we are familiar keeps shifting and changing in meaning and purpose. Words don’t mean what they used to. Teenagers no longer date, or even “go out.” Today they are “talking” which can mean anything from what […]
Scripting, databases, extensions, addons, and plugins are all part of my vocabulary, just part of the growth in technology I’ve had to experience since starting web work in 1996. HTML is rarely part of my work anymore. But the added dimension of security has become the camel with its nose in the tent. Yesterday is […]
