1. “13 Words That Need To Be Brought Back Into Fashion,” including Dandiprat, a silly, finicky person, and an anythingarian, one that holds no particular creed or dogma, are HERE. 2. How times have changed: Most of us likely associate the word “groovy” with 1960s flower children, but had you hollered out the word a […]
1. I think it’s appropriate that we have nine hens since both Joe and I are one of nine siblings. 2. Recently overheard at my house: Was it a shoe-in or just a foot in the door? 3. Sometimes I feel like the world is like a snow globe that is getting tilted upside down […]
1. My 2 year old Grandson Liam didn’t fall far from the tree. 2. The county of Kildare in Ireland means “Church in the Oaks” in Gaelic. 3. Best line heard at the recent TEDxFloyd on the environment: “Your home is not Las Vegas. What happens in your home doesn’t stay there. When you waste […]
1. We have our own West Side Story playing out at our house. After introducing four new hens to the existing five in the hen house, we now have two rival gangs, which I’ve been calling The Jets and the Sharks. 2. Dude is the new daddy-o. 3. Blackberry is to iphone what Myspace […]
1. Is the word negligible related to “not legible? Is a negligee a negligible piece of clothing? Is negligence the opposite of vigilance? 2. I discovered years ago that I can only roller skate or ice skate going counter clockwise around the rink. If I try to skate clockwise, I become clumsy and fall. 3. […]
1. When Margaret Hatcher died on Monday some Twitter users thought Cher had died because a Twitter message read #NowThatcher’sDead – Now Thatcher’s Dead – and some read it as #NowThatCher’sDead. 2. That reminds me of the time a friend of mine had a T-shirt on that said “Hug therapist” but I read it as […]
1. I don’t like to live anywhere where I can watch people come and go from my window, but I don’t seem to mind watching the birds at the bird feeder do the same. 2. I was a little thrown last week when so many of my Facebook friends posted a red square – with […]
1. Everything that Joe and I do stopped when he got the flu, I had a cold and a spring snow storm blew in. After almost of a week of being home like that, it began to feel like a bizzaro vacation world, where the highlight of our simplified day was eating breakfast together, lying […]
1. Best quote seen on Facebook this week: Growing your own food is like printing your own money. ~ Ron Finley 2. The closest I came to wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day was brushing my teeth with my green toothbrush and drinking a stinging nettles infusion. 3. Posted on March 18, 2008: “I’m so […]
1. I recently rode by a house with a series of red towels hanging on a clothesline and wondered if they would provoke the bulls in the neighboring field. 2. My grandson Bryce is growing up fast. I have to admit I was a little heartbroken when I heard him on Monday say the word […]
1. Since hearing Nancy Sinatra’s old song “These Boots are Made for Walking” last week, while watching the PBS special on the history of feminism, I’ve been saying to Joe, when we’re getting ready to go someplace, “Are you ready, boots?” 2. My four-year-old grandson Bryce likes to play Mario and Luigi. Yesterday I asked […]
1. My grandson Bryce and I like to say “boom-shaka-laka.” 2. It’s a pretty weird world when you open a bag of parsnips from the grocery store and it says “like us on Facebook” on the bag. 3. I wonder who came up with the idea to cue Oscar winners at the Academy Awards to […]
