Yes. 2020 was a bummer, but not a bust. That’s why I’m not going to focus on the sickness, injuries, and isolation that characterized much of my year. Despite everything, I accomplished a lot and I have much to be grateful for. Here are some of the notables: I FINALLY buckled down and sent queries […]
Category: My Musings
My People Are Acting Weird
When I first arrived at this den, I learned to accept that my two people sometimes had to leave me alone. I hated it. How would they like it if I locked them up and disappeared for a million years? Not much. They’d bark like mad, too, and might also forget where they’re supposed to […]
Hackgate
Weird. Since I posted my last blog ten days ago, (Congressman Murphy Throw Me a Bone) my email Inbox has been inundated with constant warnings that someone had tried and failed to log into my website. Thousands of warnings. My email was so clogged, I could barely pick out legitimate emails. I was so overwhelmed […]
Congressman Murphy, Throw Me a Bone
I ran past my United States Congressman the other day. It’s true. I was running in one direction on the Montour Trail and my duly elected representative in Congress, otherwise known as Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa, was running in the opposite direction. He smiled and half-nodded as he passed, which I interpreted as an elected […]
Medicine, Luck and Miracles
The doctor examined my leg injury today and asked, “What hospital did you go to?” “St Clair Emergency,” I replied. He looked closely at the nearly five inches of skin on my thigh that is still healing, scabby, purple and scarred. “That was not an easy laceration to fix. Whoever did those stitches did a […]
Your Inner Hippie
I miss hippies. Well, maybe not the flag-burning, psychedelic mushroom-consuming protesters of the Sixties era. I miss the peace, love, “live and let live” ideals of the Hippie Movement. “Everyone is beautiful in their own way,” sang Ray Stevens. So what if it’s a cliché? I don’t care if the Hippie Movement was a social, […]
The Dishonest Truth
My husband recently bought some items at a store and realized when he got home and looked at the receipt that the cashier didn’t scan one of his items. So a few weeks later, when he was shopping in that store again, he picked up the same item and explained to the cashier that since […]
About Tough Chicks
Tough chicks scare and intrigue me. I wouldn’t have recognized Ronda Rousey if you put me in a cage with her and told me to run for my life. I didn’t know anything about UFC fighting, other than I get impatient when my husband channel-surfs and lingers more than one second on a screen displaying […]
When People Don’t Fit Into the Mold, Throw Away the Mold
The most politically conservative friend I know was incensed when he heard rumors that his employer might mandate “sensitivity training.” “That’s an insult to my mother,” he fumed. “She raised me better than that.” How true. While the LGBTQ community has been celebrating the Supreme Court’s recent ruling allowing same-sex marriage, and their detractors continue […]
Do-Gooder Gone Bad
What is a Do-Gooder Gone Bad? I’m a nice person. And unless you are what Wayne and Garth from Saturday Night Live would call a “Psycho Hose Beast,” you’re probably a nice person, too. You try to be kind, polite and patient. You visit grandma, buy Girl Scout cookies, and swerve to let squirrels who disobey […]