My first car was a yellow 1973 AMC Gremlin with wood paneling and a bad Kmart stereo. My new car is a 2019 Yellow Jeep Wrangler with leather seats and CarPlay. My Gremlin used to backfire and eventually caught on fire. My Jeep can drive over anything and texts me when I need to change…
Our recycle man has blue eyes. On the approach to our house, the last section of road is one lane. It’s also a hill. There’s an unspoken rule, if the driver at the top of the hill sees another driver moving up the road, they need to pull over and let that person pass before heading down…
My friend calls her happy place “Yellow”. It’s become a bit of a catchword for us, she even bought me yellow mittens for Christmas this year. Yellow is warmth in the midst of cold, peace in the middle of a shit storm, it’s the happy. Jinger is my friend and a few days a week, she’s also…
I’m so tired of the back window over-share. This post may offend some people and for that I am maybe a little sorry. I’m sure it’s not the first time I’ve offended someone and it certainly won’t be the last, but I need to blog this out. Bumper stickers are a form of expression, I get it.…
I’m making pies this year for Thanksgiving. If you have never made a pie from scratch, the pumpkin pie is a tough one. I know it looks like a fairly straightforward pie, but it can be a nightmare. You need to hit somewhere between smooth, custardy, pudding and earthy, root vegetable, without falling into snotty,…
While I tend to be a little more Sally than Harry, I thought about death today. I was driving home, the sun was rising…oooh, that sounds like a good movie scene. Anyway, I was driving and there was a great song on my iPod. The sunrise was beautiful and I had one of those moments…
Some lovely gentleman flipped me off yesterday. His mother must be very proud. I was driving my children to swim which is like fighting a battle, but I’m on Scottsdale Road so it’s a battle with Escalades and sports cars. I’m in the fast lane, which I don’t care who you are or where you…
I had to go to the DMV today. That’s right down to the actual DMV. Second only to the Dept. of Vital Statistics (if you’ve lost your birth certificate you’ve been here), the DMV is just the oddest place on the planet. I’m not sure what it is, but every time I go to the…
Perspective. It’s all how you look at things. The glass is half empty or it’s half full. I’ve never really been a fan of these phrases because they’re usually uttered by people that are way too peppy or too dumb to know any better. See, that wasn’t very positive of me. Recently life has been…