Alexandra’s Rag Time
Alexandra’s Ragtime FAD wordplay The first time Alexandra secured a Favorable position among the Famous and the Fashionable, She fielded their Greetings With Aplomb and Optimism. The next time...
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Fourth Grade
Fourth grade marked my life with three events that vibrate in my heart and mind to this day. I wish I had a better eraser. I moved to a new school. Friends were hard to make. While I’d moved when I was...
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The Great Recession
“The Great Recession officially lasted from December 2007 to June 2009, but it sure seemed longer” was the lead line of a story in the AARP (yes, I am old enough to be a member) Bulletin last month. I...
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Bullying vs. Teasing
Within 20 minutes, I’d smoothly transitioned onto my fifth freeway, so locals can guess what day of the week it was and where I was. It was Saturday morning in central Orange County. I was headed from...
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No good deed goes unpunished
I first heard this statement in the summer of 1997. A wise mentor gave it voice after I’d written a ground-breaking grant and determined to shepherd its project to fruition. Naive person that I was, I...
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A walk in the park plot twist
Life is not a simple walk in the park, is it? There’s all those people and opinions plotting the demise of happiness from the vagary of their human nature. While “a walk in the park” is an idiom,...
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The Devil’s Advocate Post
In the first edition of the Daily News, this reporter has covered the Seven Deadly Sins: we’ve got Greed in the Business Section Sloth in the Leisure Section Gluttony in the Restaurant Reviews Lust...
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Not once or twice
It’s said that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but let this post be the amendment. Lightning most definitely struck and someone recorded the event on film; lightning almost struck...
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It’s about Time
You know the holiday gift season is approaching when…your mailbox is stuffed with catalogues and the papers are filled with ads. Let me be the first to say: Merry Charge Card Season to you! Yesterday’s...
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Boundaries and Space
The devil personified always seemed to be seated on my left side when she hissed fiery, false words directly at my face multiple times last year. I could almost feel her spite, er, her spit’s splash....
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Oreos
What is your time worth? What can a buck buy these days? Certainly not a pack of gum at the convenience store/gas station where I paid $50.00 to fill up my Mini tank today. But before we grumble too...
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Living Life as a Miracle at an Airport
Oh-kay. Recently there were miracle posts and airplane posts and the two themes combined in a flash – done! Wait, there’s more…this time we take you inside the airport terminal… We were returning from...
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Twelfth Morn
I hated to do it, but it needed to be done. I tossed out the final Christmas cookies, dipped pretzels, chex mix, and fudge. We had already eaten nearly all of the treats – and you can tell, because the...
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Country Manor
Country Manor: it’s where I aspired to live. I clung to a dream with a dead wrong boyfriend during the early ’70s. It was the name of a store where my Hadleyware collection began, gifts from his mother...
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Lucky
“DO YOU FEEL LUCKY? It’s the line from a classic movie which, because Larry and I were dating, I went to see, despite the fact that I hate violence – verbal or physical – and that movie had plenty...
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Women and Mankind
Why is it that Women have the Wo(e) of Men and Men have the Kind? A friend’s recent lament about her loving husband of 25 years will serve as example: She and I are Playmates. Not Hugh Hefner’s brand,...
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The Final Forgiveness: Self
A year ago, I joined Pinterest, as every aspiring-to-be-published writer was advised, as a component of ‘Platform’ on social media that will advertise. It’s a visual billboard of interests and...
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Good-bye
I said good-bye to thousands of people in the past several days, and then threw them in the trash. Details of restoration and recovery of skills, details of loss and re-birth, notes of triumphs and...
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Girl Games
“Let’s you and me hate her” was the name I gave the rapport-building game that I experienced in 1997. It’s power play when there are three girls, each seeking pecking order by defame. I was entrapped –...
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Living Life as a Miracle: Furniture Shopping
If you’ve followed this blog – or if you know him – my husband is a mighty contemplative man. He thrives on research and comparison shopping. He seldom does anything fast. Except fall in love with me,...
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