On Sunday, contrary to my husband’s wishes for shopping (he’s the family shopper), we drove to a coastal park. It felt wintery still, around 40 degrees with a little breeze, but pretty nice out. “Pretty nice” here in January is what we said in Juneau, Alaska all the time. Translated, it means “it’s not raining.”
Perhaps [...]
noun:
1. Excessive or flashy ornamentation or decoration.
2. A fuss over a matter of little importance.
I don’t have much to say about this word except “what’s all the FOOFARAW?!” Ever since I read it, I notice it everywhere: Golden Globe Awards: foofaraw! Donald Trump: foofaraw! 3 year old tantrums: foofaraw! I think there might an associated [...]
An average woman (or one of average morals) spends a good 15-20 years of her life trying NOT to get pregnant these days. Considering the investment in money, worry, pregnancy tests, and “concerned advice” from parental figures, you’d think a sneeze would do the trick. Then you get old. Who knew contraception could be so [...]
Had to cancel my V.I.P. trip to the Sundance Film Festival this winter (ha!), to join the ranks of thousands out there and have a colonoscopy. Although my hubbie has a magic pill, the superflusher 2000, I chose to follow doctor’s orders for the preparation, which involved lots of fluids and starvation. After downing two [...]
Today, snow melts. I don’t know about the rest of the area, but I think most of us islanders are happy about it. However, in trying to enjoy the present more, rather than wish for warmer temperatures, cleaner roads, and oh, yes, schools to be running NORMAL hours again (puhleeeease!), we have a last hurrah [...]
a few observations about children’s shows and books:
1. Underlying religious tone of Dora the Explorer. Come on, after about the 2361st time, I GOT it — “who do we always turn to, when we don’t know the way to go?” Map! Map = God. It is SO obvious now!
2. The Runaway Bunny — at first [...]
Yesterday, we had four deer visit just on the other side of our fence. Here are three of four. Ivy snack time. They all had antlers, so I assume they were boys. I know female caribou have horns, but I don’t think that applies to deer. They had black tails, too. Are they official “black-tailed [...]
