Get Out!

I have decided that I want to get out and see more this summer; too many previous summer vacations have been filled with trips to Target and the grocery store and not enough time spent doing cool stuff. Sure, we go on family trips and see things then, but on an every day basis I rarely seem to get out and explore my hometown. I always get so caught up in the...

I Heart FLOTUS

Michelle Obama = Coolest Woman in Amer...

I Spy

I have a certain fondness for people who don't close their curtains.Especially the ones who have great big windows and keep their lights burning bright.You see, I love to spy in their windows. I promise there is nothing creepy about my predilection for peeping in people's windows when driving by at night. I simply enjoy seeing how the houses look inside, and by that I don't strictly mean the way they're decorated. It's more a matter of...

Twice the Legal Limit

I am forty-two years old; therefore, my status as being old enough to drink is now, well, old enough to drink. Funny thing is - I never have. In high school when everyone else was experimenting, I wasn't interested. By college, I'd seen enough friends puking in the shrubs outside some too-warm, too-noisy party to be at all tempted. But now. Now I'm interested. I have decided that my summer project, as it were, will be to learn how...

Why God Invented Cell Phones & Put Cameras in Them

Behold, my neighbors' driveway ... The picture doesn't have anything to give you a sense of scale, so you'll just have to trust me that my neighbors' kids used a warm spring day, their idle hands, and some sidewalk chalk to create this masterpiece that can be viewed from low-flying aircraft. Each letter's about five feet tall.  Their use of the exclamation...

The Carpet and the Drapes

I get my weekly horoscope emailed to me on Sundays. I don't actually take the words as truth, but it's kinda fun to see if life's events in any way follow the predictions from my friends at Astrocenter.  Okay, life never falls in line with the predictions, and I don't know how to unsubscribe.  The writing staff at the email horoscope service (which is probably comprised of different folks than the actual star-reading department,...

Boys Rule

I've been thinking about boys a lot lately. Not on purpose or anything. I'll just be going along, minding my own, doin' what needs be done, and  - whap!  - thoughts of boys pop into my head. Let me give you some examples ... On the evening of February 13th, I was seated at our kitchen table next to my daughter. We were working on the task of assembling...