Year archives: 2004

The Big C and Me

Being lost searching for various amusements in a strange city is no fun. Driving behind a person who is lost and driving 5-10 miles under the speed limit so that she doesn’t miss a sign that could indicate where the hell she might be is also no fun. In fact, it’s annoying. That’s one of …

Kentucky Shuffles Uneasily

If you live near Cincinnati, it’s likely that you just heard the whole city breathe a unified sigh of relief. Apparently there are over 331,825 Cincinnatians, and my husband and I managed to annoy each and every one of them during our brief stay. So, if you were privy to this audible sigh but wondered …

Karma: Paybacks Are a Bitch

Imagine if you will that you have a crazy person in your charge. You are completely responsible for her care and her overall well being. In the past, she has attempted to pick up a bloody rag that was lying in a gutter, she has put a bead into her nose, and she has made …

Me, Myself and I

Writing is all about capturing your audiences interest in the first sentence or two. I can’t even keep my own attention today. It seems I’m at a party with Myself and I keep telling Myself, “That’s an interesting story idea.” I’m lying, of course, and I know it. I’m boring Myself to death. In fact, …

Techie News

First up – Making great strides in the way my blog is read: Michael has set up a PDA friendly version of my site. Even some of you without PDAs might prefer the stripped-down version of the site to looking at my usual purple background, which begins to look more hideous to me every day. …

Busted

My ten year old daughter is teaching herself how to forge my signature on documents… Seems like only yesterday I was teaching her to write her own name and now she’s copying mine. They grow up so fast, don’t they?