Hmmm. Hope you all are enjoying the holidays. Personally? I’m finding this year’s merriment a tad too stressful to claim that I’m enjoying it. Oh, yes….I’m grateful for so much. I really am. There’s no doubt about that. But, on the other hand, there’s only so much pressure that I can handle at any given [...]

Well, my son’s flight came in on schedule - he made it in a little after midnight on Wednesday just before the storm hit full strength and started cancelling arrivals - and the girls picked him up as planned. Phew. One less thing to worry myself over. I made a gargantuan pan of shepherd’s pie (son’s favorite “comfort” [...]

Oh, yes. Is this not what our mothers, and their mothers before them have passed down to us? Is it not what we have ourselves embraced and held tightly to in all of the empty, echoing corridors of our minds when the wind blew fiercely and the bone cold of it all threatened to leave us [...]

A tad unusual, eh? Well, my top lip still looks like those big red wax lips they have at Hallowe’en…bottom lip is normal-sized, which makes for a somewhat odd appearance. I can’t stay home from work and wallow in my disfigurement and stomach rumbles because I have a few deadlines to meet by the end [...]

I was driving home on the Mass ‘Pike the other day and an image came to mind of one of those inflatable clowns - or whatever - that kids used to have that were weighted on the bottom, and you could keep punching them and they just wouldn’t stay down. Sometimes I think that they’re the [...]

Okay. DH no longer has any income. He had eight week’s pay owed to him, and they have sent him a check for that. Next week he will file an unemployment claim although he has to do it in NH, since that’s where he (was) working, and their maximum benefit is some ridiculous number like [...]

Sort of. Mostly. Feel a little subdued and repressed…like a really good thing to do would be to go out in the woods somewhere and let out one long howl. Unfortunately it’s mucho cold outside, and I don’t fancy a trek in any woods even if it did mean an opportunity to let off some [...]