May 3: Not in My Comfort Zone
I'm participating in a challenge to blog every day in May; I was supposed to post this on May 3, but was having a tech issue, so I wrote this, saved it and am now posting it with a backdate it to the correct date.What makes me uncomfortable? Hmmm . . .1. Thong...
May 2: Avoiding Run-ons
I'm participating in a challenge to blog every day in May; I was supposed to post this on May 2, but was having a tech issue, so I wrote this and saved it and am backdating it to the correct date.Technically, there are 2 types of run-on sentences -- run-ons and...
May 1: In How Many Words?!?
I'm writing this post in response to a write-every-day-in-May challenge to write my life story in 250 words or less. I love to talk/write, so "challenge" is definitely the right word for this. Here we go . . . I was born 50+ years ago and had a complex childhood...
On Autopilot No More (Dream Save Do, week 22)
Long story short, after much deliberation and with almost as much reluctance as anticipation, I sold my wonderful little red Prius. I loved my Prius -- how it handled, its fuel-efficiency, its size, etc. As much as I enjoyed the car itself, I loved the fact that it...
Ahhhh . . . the Joys of Car-lessness
I'll admit it -- the title of this post is a bit misleading. I'm not car-less. In fact, I recently traded cars and am enjoying my new vehicle immensely. But several days a week, I act as if I don't own a car.About 6 weeks ago, I moved, and I'm happy to say that I...
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,...