My back aches – lower, upper, middle, the whole deal. My sides are screaming. My upper arms are in agony, and I have blisters on my blisters. Yes ladies and gents, it is that time of year when you have sticks in your hair, leaf litter in your bra, and a rake in your loudly…
Category: Carolina
Weekend
Saturday morning brought us a clean house after a coffee fueled cleaning frenzy, all hail our 10 cup percolator. A nagging, shallow cough has me convinced that our house is full of dust, or mold, or cat dander, or an insidious lung-tickling mixture of the three, so after a sleepless hacking Friday night I raced…
Welcome to Mayberry
My beautiful fat cat is sitting on her beatiful fat mom’s lap (that’s me), purring and eyeing the 4 squares of Cadbury’s chocolate that I was trying to savor but now must gobble to protect my claim to it. The chocolate polishes off a wonderfully greasy meal at the local pub, and my lone dining experience (whilst my…
A Cleansing (Ghostly) Breath
I’m feeling much better now. Some days, life seems to spin out of control and you feel like your myriad responsibilities are un-complete-able, you aren’t getting enough sleep, you haven’t had a well-balanced meal in weeks, and you don’t have the time to fix any of those problems. And then . . . you sign…
A Drive Home
A Drive Home The nice thing about being brought up in a half dozen places is that each one feels like home. Whenever I return to the ridiculously perfect weather in southern California, or to the spectacular vision of the Golden Gate bridge in the northern part of the state, or to the long…