I’ve been on a week-long sabbatical, and today I break the alcohol fast. I picked a great day, don’t you think? I will also be cooking up a storm. I’m mixing it up this year, trying a…
Tile Workshop
Last weekend I took a tile class at a home improvement store. I was hoping to learn a little, so that I could tackle a few projects around the new pad. As I’ve never tiled a darn thing,…
Dead or Alive – A Fun Friday Guessing Game!
Two dogs. One Floor. Only one of these pooches is alive, as in breathing. With a heartbeat. The other is quite dead, as in stuffed. No nothing. I confess, I’ve been fooled by the dead one…
Blaze – An Update
A while back I wrote about planting a lemon tree, named Blaze. Once I put her in the ground, all I could do was wait and see if she was gonna turn out. Or not. Really, it could…
Friendship
Today I’m helping a friend move. She’s been more than a good friend to me over the years. Helping her feels right. Feeling right is a good thing. Later, I’ll be attending another friend’s reading. She’s a…
D-Squared T-Squared – Week 10
When Mister and I conceived the idea for Drunk-Dial Think-Tank, it was with the intention of being creative on a regular basis. Go figure, it’s working. This past week, it ended up working beyond what we’ve been…
Speaking of Dying…
I’ve been reading Laurie Kilmartin’s tweets about her father’s death. (If you’re interested, here’s the link. You have to go back to about February 20th.) As a cave-dweller, I don’t follow anyone on Twitter. But my comic friend…
Boots and Pants and Boots and Pants and Boots and Pants…
If you live in America and have a television, perhaps you’ve seen the Geico commercials featuring a talking pig. My current fave of this oeuvre shows the pig dealing with his on-line insurance business then re-focusing on his…
Hummingbird Lost
Mister and I were in the kitchen. It was a beautiful day, so the windows and doors were thrown open wide. In L.A., this is common. We don’t have screen doors at our house, so when the doors…
The Universe is Conspiring in Your Favor
“Oh, God, if I’m anything by a clinical name, I’m a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters J.D. Salinger (1919 – 2010) When the…