Tossing Out the Box (Dream Save Do, week 21)
I still remember the unadulterated joy I experienced when my parents signed up for cable TV and my viewing options expanded from 2 clear and 1 fuzzy channels (NBC, CBS, and ABC respectively) to a wide array of channels. I was in college at the time, and since then,...
Another Set of Hands (Dream Save Do, week 20)
"Suggest 2 people assemble this product."Those were the first words I read last week when I opened the instructions for assembling the chiminea I had just purchased. I paused, looked at the picture on the front of the box, thought of all the products I've put...
Tackling the Big “O” (Dream Save Do, week 19)
Today is the big day. In a matter of minutes -- no more than an hour -- I will begin the process of ruthlessly sorting the hundreds, if not thousands (well, if you were to count all the paper clips, staples, safety pins, straight pins, etc., etc. individually) of...
Kindred Spirits
I'm a law-abiding citizen and have always highly respected those who work in law enforcement in my community. Even so, for the past seven months, my appreciation for the men and women who serve in police departments across the country has grown, and with it has...
Did I Really Say That?? (Dream Save Do, week 18)
Did I really proclaim -- and on a public forum, no less -- that by Summer 2016 I would have my possessions other than furniture pared down to what would fit into 5 trunks and a tote bag? Oh my!A little respiratory bug kept me home the latter part of this past week,...
5 Trunks and a Tote (Dream Save Do, week 17)
Eight days ago, at mile marker 178 on southbound I55 just south of St. Louis, I had an epiphany."5 trunks and a tote."That was my epiphany.I think I need to explain. When I moved to this apartment last summer, I transported everything except for the large pieces of...
Lest I Forget
Last week I did something that I wish I hadn't had the opportunity to do to begin with. I watched the video of the brutal, evil-filled murder-by-burning-alive of Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh. (No specific details will be shared here)It was without a...
How Quickly They . . . well, I . . . Forget (Dream Save Do, week 16
You'd think that, with 23 moves in the 30+ years since I graduated from college, I'd have no illusions as to the amount of work involved in moving from one place to another. I've moved solo, married-but-pre-children, pregnant (at 2 months along, 6 months along, and...
A Little Black Book . . . or Something
I've read more than a few times that individuals who convert to something -- a religion, belief system, etc -- are often more zealous than those who have embraced it for most of their life.I'm living proof of that as it applies to technology. I was dragged,...
Movin’ on Down the Road (Dream Save Do, week 15)
After a loooong 25 days with a stressful moment here or there, I can finally share that all of the details are worked out and that next month I will be moving from my current apartment into a house in a charming neighborhood south of the city I work in.I couldn't...