This is the short and the long of it . . . William Shakespeare
The fridge broke, it’s freezing everything on the back of the shelves. I was over the moon about it though. I hated it. Over designed by people who clearly don’t eat much in the way of fresh fruits and vegetables. Shopping for a new one was a nightmare; they are all the same. All of middle America wants fridges [...]
On Nova’s Science night I found out that humans have about as many genes as nematodes and that corn has way more genes than we do. Corn. Why corn? We have to do a lot more than corn does on any given day. It’s hard to believe that we are who we are when we’re [...]
India said she was going to hack into my blog and tell everyone that Jim bought a big, flat screen television. I decided to out him myself. For months and months the husband complained that he couldn’t see the TV. Granted, we have a large living room but we could have moved our chairs closer [...]
A marriage can handle just one hysteric. That would be me. I only make this cake once a year, at Christmas. It’s a major production, for me anyway, because I give it as a gift to friends and I need six or eight of them in a short span of time. This year I decided [...]
The children were hungry, we had stayed too long at the park. This may be California but here in the north when we get a sunny day in the middle of our rainy winter we roll in it like happy pigs. The park is just out my back gate and a short walk down a [...]
When I die, I’m taking Google with me and the rest of you are on your own. If I can’t live without it I probably can’t be dead without it either. The library is still my lover, but Google is my mistress, my mommy, my best friend forever. Enjoy it while you can because I’m [...]
We were on our way to the video store with the CD player blasting. “Oh, that’s my favorite Beatles song,” I said. “No, it’s the Stones,” said she. “No, it’s the Beatles” “Noooo, it’s the Stones,” she said, reaching between the seats for the disc cover. “You weren’t even born when that song came out. [...]
It would be several days before the stench began to waft through the house. Our friends, their kids, and a gaggle of college students had all settled in for a long weekend. On the last night I lit the back garden with candles and while the kids romped though my costume shop, Laurie and I [...]
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