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Candy Grams and Mammograms
There comes a time in a middle-aged woman’s life when she must bear her breasts to a stranger for smooshing and radiating in the name of health. I mean, she…
Read MoreBook Review — Frozen Dinners
[sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”onLoad”][/sg_popup] “Frozen Dinners” is a memoir by Elaine Ambrose detailing her experience growing up in Idaho. Her father, a hard working but difficult man struggled to provide for…
Read MoreWould You Do That To A Puppy?
I was sitting on the sofa petting my dog. It had been a bad day, and I was thinking how much better I felt stroking his fur and feeling his…
Read MoreA Stabbing Pain in the Neck
[sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”onLoad”][/sg_popup] There comes a time in any decades-long marriage, no matter how solid, loving, and in-for-the-long haul when you want to stab your beloved in the eye with…
Read MoreNew Year Same Me
With the new year comes a whole slew of social media posts, blogs, and articles titled a variation on “New Year, New You.” These are, I suppose, intended to be…
Read MoreStay-Away-Muffs
[sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”hover”][/sg_popup]Considering the fact that I listen and talk for a living, I sure do get tired of listening and talking. By the end of the week, I reach…
Read MoreBOOK REVIEW — Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
[sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”hover”][/sg_popup] Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking People have been telling me to read “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World…
Read MoreI Left You Alone for Ten Minutes Part 2
[sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”onLoad”][/sg_popup] As you will recall from last week’s column, I left my husband alone for ten minutes at a street fair in South Carolina, 200 miles away from…
Read MoreI Left You Alone for Ten Minutes
[sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”onLoad”][/sg_popup]I didn’t grow up with pets. My father has a basic contempt for any critter that doesn’t have the sense to be born a human being. My mother…
Read MoreOde to Flannel Sheets
[sg_popup id=”2131″ event=”onLoad”][/sg_popup] Ode to Flannel Sheets “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” And beauty occureth not without a good night’s sleep. Therefore without sleep, there is no truth, Only a…
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