Monthly Archives: January 2011

Welcome to the Worry Club

Posted on January 25, 2011 by

Welcome to the Worry Club, and have a seat.  You’re in good company–it’s a club of millions.  More often than not, you have a child.  You hope that you will raise them right, and they will be fine.  Then your bundle … Continue reading →

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Cave Fever

Posted on January 20, 2011 by

Once word gets out that ‘it’s clear,’ we all go out sliding out of our back doors.  Your front path is still a sheet of ice; your backyard is still an ice skating rink.  You can finally get out of … Continue reading →

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Confessions from the Grumpy Nest

Posted on January 14, 2011 by

Day 5:  Icebound.  Okay, so you and the dog are both snow wimps.  You witness the neighborhood labs bounding, cavorting, and then actually eating snow.  The white sight unleashes adorable boyish behavior in that breed.  But you own a tiny hound … Continue reading →

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Where’s The Bread? Land of Snow Wimps

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

When you go into your local grocery store to pick up a prescription and a pack of hot dog buns (sigh, your kids have left and gone back to college and work, so you have an empty nester grocery basket … Continue reading →

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Texting Like Yoda: Blame it on AutoCorrect

Posted on January 4, 2011 by

Back when you first started texting, you limped along on your sleek new state-of-the- art Razor cellphone. The crazy words it would implant and imbed in your messages were random and strange, any sentence structure flew out the window:  cu@y1hows … Continue reading →

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