If You See A Dog in Green Plastic Booties

If You See A Dog in Green Plastic Booties

Inspired by the book “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie” and Dr. Suess If you see a dog wearing green plastic booties, You will stare and stare like it’s your most important duty. You will think, “Wow. They’re like mini shower caps. Look at that!”...
Daylight Saving Still Lives In My Clock

Daylight Saving Still Lives In My Clock

  My bedside table is home to stacks of waiting-to-be-read books, a lamp and a clock radio. I’m not even sure how hold my clock radio is, but it’s old technology I contemplate disposing of each time I dust. I don’t use the alarm or the radio. It’s overkill...
Cleaning Closets:  The Art of Indecision

Cleaning Closets: The Art of Indecision

    Hands down, the hardest part of tackling a big project is getting started. Months and sometimes years go into stewing about it. For me, it’s always organizational issues like overstuffed closets or a jammed garage. I read somewhere, “Clutter is the...
Noises In The Night: What kept me awake?

Noises In The Night: What kept me awake?

What was that?!? I swear I heard a slam and then quick footsteps down the smooth hardwood floors. Slap, slap, slap. Someone is running away with my laptop of stories; I just know it. I read about a neighbor losing all her laptops to a thief while she dashed out for a...

Turning 50. Yippee!

I just turned 50.  I didn’t freak out or cry.  I didn’t buy a sports car or get a facelift.  Things are different, however.  In just a short time, I’m finding fifty-year-olds surprisingly friendly. “Welcome to the club,” most of them say to me. Gosh,...