Spring is ALMOST here, if not quite settled in. Today I planted my herbs in their twelve little clay pots that are now perfectly positioned in my kitchen window (on the three shelves that DH built across the window) to catch the morning sun. THEN, DH & I put on our walking duds and headed over [...]

Or maybe bouncing? Remember pogo sticks? I had one when I was 10 or 11. Loved it. Bounced until I nearly drove my mother ’round the bend, I did. Now this guy looks like he’s taking his to work, doesn’t he? I wonder if back then, they were considered a new means of transportation or [...]

   Not a creature is stirring…oh, wait. That’s Christmas! This is Easter! Or, for some, the equinox holiday of Oestre, symbolizing balance. Or, Ostara, named after a Germanic goddess heralding the triumphant return of life and growth to the earth.
Life, okay. Growth - in my case, at least, and if we’re talking physical - nuh-uh. [...]

Hmmm. This picture of clay goddesses was prompted by Anniegirl’s comment about feeling good about her curves and then seeing some young chippie with a so-called “perfect body” strut by, and immediately reverting to “fat ugly bitch” status. OH?
Now I’m not going to indulge in “feel good” rhetoric about how women throughout history were considered [...]

I’m eating my “emergency” candy bar. I’ve carried it in my pocketbook for about four months now. I like doing things like that, because every time I’m looking for something in there and happen to catch a glimpse of it, I feel strong and intrepid and I-am-woman-hear-me-roarish. Today I am feeling weak and don’t-give-a-poopish, and I’m [...]

Very little sleep last night, and miserable this morning because of it. I have a lunch meeting at 11:30 with our capital campaign committee - bank CEOs, investment firm bigwigs, a sports team owner - well, you get the idea. I’m not running the meeting (thank Gawd) but should look brisk & efficient and like [...]

Okay. Cold/allergy/flu…whatever….is a little better. I actually took two days off last week and just laid around the house looking pitiful and letting DH wait on me. I HATE snow. I hate it with a vengeance. I hate it with a smoldering, burning INSANE hatred. It snowed yet again Friday night from about 9:00 until [...]