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You Have to Stop Somewhere
Camp Dorothy opened for business on Sunday which means Mom and I are painting the town red. We're having so much fun, what with hot Uno games, Judge Judy and Wheel of Fortune, drives around town, reading library books, and decorating family graves, time is short for...
Bushybrows and the 3 Tweezers: A Grim Mother’s Fairy Tale
Once upon a time there was a woman named Bushybrows. Because she had bushy eyebrows. They were bushy because on a trip to visit her daughter who lives in a far away land, Bushybrows lost the magical, scissor-type, slant end tweezers she'd used to pluck her brows for...
How Do You Milk Rice?
This dairy allergy thing is changing my life in a whole bunch of ways. Last month it made ordering from the Cheesecake Factory's menu an adventure when I went out to supper with friends after the Accessibility Summit. It led to interesting dinner conversation that...
Top Ten Signs You Are Old Enough to Join AARP
I consider myself young at heart, though periodic mailings from AARP, the ones urging my husband and me to join their fine organization make it mighty difficult to ignore the fact that we're getting older every day. Even so, for years we scoffed when the envelopes...
More Blessings than Burdens
Yesterday turned out not to be one of my best days. I landed in the middle of a mess, big enough to make the memory lapses mentioned in last Friday's post more worrisome than humorous. A mess that made me feel like our pink peony bush hit by frost awhile back -...
The Muffins in the Microwave and other Morning Mysteries
This morning, I was up bright and early. At 6:15 I left the house to walk, my back exercises, Bible study, and breakfast already completed. Ten minutes later, my phone rang. By the time I fished it out of my pocket and untangled the iPod ear buds wrapped around it,...