For all the tea in China I would never be purposefully rude or hurtful to anyone, yet I so often am when unfiltered things come flying out of my face or occasionally, fingertips. For example, the other day a friend posted a heartfelt comment about her daughter going off to college, how she was already …
Continue reading For Cara, or, Comfort for Parents of Imminent College Students
What could go wrong? We've left the Lone Star State, our home for many years, moving East and I seem to be on a reverse trajectory through life, erasing all those miles my ancestors put between Virginia Colony and me, their distant descendant. The move went as well as a move can go, with the exception …
Continue reading A Man, His Wife, Her Neurotic Cat and His Tranquilizers Take a Road Trip
With a long habit of cart-before-horse, I've been blogging for a few years, though never with any consistency or, God forbid, any formal training. Now, here is WordPress offering a free how-to course in blogging, regardless of where one's horse or cart may be in the great cosmic barn continuum. First up, an Introduction and …
My friend and fellow blogger, Mary Beth, accepted this challenge: “What’s the thing in your life that makes your heart sing? When do you feel most alive?” then threw down the gauntlet. Having rarely met the gauntlet I didn't want to pick up, I thought maybe I wouldn't be able to come up with five, or at …
Southern Fried Californian 