Have you ever seen the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace? Not just on TV, but actually witnessed it? It's amazing and beautiful, a majestic combination of pageantry and precision. Every soldier knows his or her part, they have drilled for this innumerable times and there is no guess-work. It is, to the viewing public, perfect, every …
Month: September 2015
Wisdom in Unlikely Places
Wisdom can be found in unlikely places, just as can beauty, and if you're lucky, good barbecue. I loved Sons of Anarchy. I'm sure that surprises no one who knows me well, but others would be forgiven thinking a middle-aged woman with a love of all things Jane Austen wouldn't be drawn to a shoot-em-up, ultra …
The Birds & Bees & Uncle Duane’s Chickens
The casual way TV sitcom characters talk about sex, all the time, in front of their TV sitcom children is something that never quite rings true to Paul and me, though it did have us laughing about our turns at bat delivering The Talk to our own respective children. My former brother- and sister-in-law kept chickens on …
The Curative Taco
Who knew that Kroger's at 4:00 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon is a freaking combat zone? Shouldn't all those pushy/oblivious/rude people be home watching football? Did they not see us carefully staying to our side of the aisle and could they not do the same, instead of stopping dead center while sending text messages? And what was …
Friday Five – First Things
Julie at RevGalBlogPals invites us to recall some firsts: 1. Can you remember the first time you travelled a long way to meet someone special? 2. Share a memory of a first visit to a new country, state or place that was unexpected or unusual. 3. What is the first thing you do on waking …
Buried Treasures: Swiss Steak
We bought a house! Now we just need to move into it, made far easier by our intrepid realtor getting the deal done with a bit of over-lap between apartment and house. My free time is now spent schlepping boxes to the new place, and reveling in having time to organize it just right. Because …
An Open Letter to My Menopausal Brain
Dear Brain: It's been too long, really, since I've needed to address this concern. I don't believe you will be surprised by what I have to say and I hope we can come to some mutually-beneficial agreement. Remember, oh, forever? How we've always been a morning person? Up and at it early, ready to go, …
County Clerks and the Constitution
Ms. Kim Davis, County Clerk of Rowan County, KY, appealed to the Supreme Court asking them to stay a lower court's ruling that she do her job, claiming to do so impinges upon her First Amendment rights (SCOTUS declined to hear her case). It is the County Clerk's job to issue marriage licenses to county residents but, citing her Christian faith, …
Southern Fried Californian 