Announcing the Great Chicken Arachnid Armistice of 2021

The other day I was cleaning the mantle. Actually, I was taking down the Christmas decorations. Covid has made me less…timely. Why take it down today when you can take it down next month? Why write a blog post today when you can blog next year? See how it works? It affects us all differently,…

Manatees in T-Shirts and Other Notes

I used to carry a notebook to jot down the random thoughts I’m prone to in case one turned out to be the inspiration for a best-selling book. Or any kind of book, really. This method didn’t work well because the notebook, no matter how small, would always get in the way of the keys,…

Bomb Cyclones, Snow Hurricanes and Other Dramas

During the great storm of 1992, I encountered an intruder in my home. My husband was away. That’s the first thing. Secondly, the storm was touted as “historical” and “major” and “dangerous” and other scary words, the scariest of which were “Snow Hurricane”. My children were 6 and 3. We lived on Elm Street. We…

Here in my car I feel safest of all

I  saw a commercial the other day  advertising a car with internet.  Do we really need another distraction?  Isn’t this a little like having a car that comes standard with a bartender?  When  do they picture us using this feature? I don’t want to share the road with people who are watching Hulu +. Why…

Spiders who hold grudges…

BigB knocked the spider out of its web with the broom.  It landed on the side of the house.  He tried to  kill it, but it was too quick for him.  As it scurried away across the bricks it suddenly stopped, turned all of its beady little eyes on me, and said, “I hold you responsible!”,…