About ten years ago, I received a disturbing letter in the mail. I didn’t recognize the name of the sender, but because the salutation said “Dear Member of Blah-Dee-Blah Parish,” I understood this to be a form letter sent to everyone at the very large Blah-Dee-Blah Parish, of which I was a member. Here is […]
Category: Confessions of.a Do-Gooder
Miss Understanding
I have a long history of misunderstanding things. For example, as a teenager I spent a summer working in the day care at a summer camp and took care of a 5-year old boy named Jesus. Growing up in Southern California, where a large proportion of the population in my own high school spoke Spanish, […]
Miss Understanding
I have a long history of misunderstanding things. For example, as a teenager I spent a summer working in the day care at a summer camp and took care of a 5-year old boy named Jesus. Growing up in Southern California, where a large proportion of the population in my own high school spoke Spanish, […]
Football Used to be Funnier
Football used to crack me up, mostly because I didn’t understand it. I wasn’t raised in a football-watching family. In fact, on any given Sunday afternoon, there was a far greater chance my family would be watching Bob Hope on the Road to Rio than the Rams on the Road to Denver. (And yes, I […]
Playing With the Cool Kids! (Bikers, That Is)
At last! Bicycle Times Magazine Issue #31 is here… or almost here, meaning “to be found on the magazine rack at your local Barnes & Noble sometime this week.” Look closely at the cover and notice the feature called “Touring With Adult Children – 275 Miles of Fun on the Great Allegheny Passage.” TA DA! […]
Live Lofty
My husband and I run a marathon every fall. We’re up to 16 now… number 17 coming up in October. Every year, my husband sets a goal, deciding what time he wants or expects to finish the race. One year, he trained well and decided he wanted to run it in 3:15 to qualify for […]
Waves of Gratitude
Since Confessions of a Do-Gooder Gone Bad was published almost a month ago, I have been hanging ten on the surfboard of happiness, riding wave after wave of exhilaration, which is pretty good for a California girl who’s never actually surfed. But, aside from the relief and pride I feel to finally see my work […]
The P-Wordy and P-Wordiest Cars
This is a real text conversation I had with my stepson, who was called in to settle a dispute between my husband and I as to whether certain cars were deliberately designed to resemble specific parts of the human anatomy. I have long suspected that some vehicular makes and models could only have hit the drawing […]
Good Joo Joo
I have officially been a published author for one week and I’m noticing a surprising trend. People suddenly think I’m an expert at something other than embarrassing my kids by posting a video of me dancing on YouTube. (Thank you millions of YouTube viewers who had sense enough NOT to watch it, and as for […]
Dorky Dance, Genuine Joy
Well, I did it. I DANCED. As promised, I turned up the volume on Pink’s “Raise Your Glass” and celebrated the release of my book last week by wiggling, wobbling and nearly falling over while my husband captured it all on video. Bonus for you. Embarrassment for me. After posting it on Facebook, I had […]