I’m pretty sure Charles Schultz and William Randolph Hearst would never sit down to dinner. They would have a hard time agreeing on the table. Schultz was born nearly 60 years after Hearst, but their lifetimes did cross. I don’t profess to be a scholar on either man, but it is my opinion they could…
I often suffer from Perfect or Not Participating Syndrome. I guess that would be PNPS? People afflicted with this syndrome need to be at the top, they need to be the best. Everything needs to look just so and be the way they visualize it, in order for them to participate. This leads to missing…
I’m not a good driver. I’m easily distracted. I talk with others, or to myself, I sing, I look around and I’m forever finding myself lost. I forget to drive, to focus on the road, and get where I’m going. Life is a journey, to be enjoyed in reflection, only if you reach a destination.…
There are doves nesting in a planter right by our front door. We noticed it last week when Operation Spring Clean Up began. If we open the front door the dove flies away and leaves two beautifully perfect eggs in a simple elegant nest right under the light by our door. So, we don’t open…
When did hard work become a bad thing, an unromantic idea? Ben Affleck accepted the Oscar for Best Picture last weekend and thanked his wife. He thanked her for their life and for working with him to keep their marriage together and to raise their children. I’m paraphrasing of course, but that was the gist.…
Is it possible for anyone to get tired of looking at the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty? I mean if you live by these wonders, or if you drive past Niagara Falls on your way to work, if you pass The Arc de Triomphe each day, do you always look in wonder? I’ve…
I hate the grocery store. I like having food, but the process of shopping for it is annoying and don’t even get me started on the unpacking and putting away business. Michael cooks and…he likes to buy the food. Perfect right? It would be, except lately he invites me to go with him, cruise the…
A laundry mat is really not the place to make life decisions, but sometimes they work out. When Michael and I first started living together we rented this one and a half room place with concrete floors, before they were trendy, and a living room that barely had enough room for a futon (wow, remember…
The towel bar in my bathroom is broken. Well, it’s not really broken, but the round part slips off the wall bracket and then the bar falls out and onto the floor. I’m pretty sure all I need to do is tighten the little screw at the bottom of the round part so it stays on…