DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE INTERNET IS FOR? No? Me neither. This revelation occurred to me the other day as I was turning on my laptop. It was during that uneventful period where your computer tells you it’s “Resuming Windows” (which maybe wouldn’t take so damn long if it simply resumed rather than spend its […]
It Occurs To Me: Orderly disorder
I HAD MY LIFE IN ORDER — UNTIL THE OTHER NIGHT. That’s when Loretta cleaned off the dining room table. OK, here’s an open question to women: Why is it that, after we guys work so hard to get all the stuff we might need within arm’s reach, you feel compelled to move our stuff […]
It Occurs To Me: To all the mothers: It’s your day
I WAS BORN ON MOTHER’S DAY. And because Mother’s Day always falls on the second Sunday in May, I shared my birthday with my mom’s day exactly three times. The day I was born, when I turned 5 and then my 11th birthday. That was the year she died. I don’t really remember celebrating Mother’s […]
It Occurs To Me: Growing up a garden
I’M GOING TO PLANT MY GARDEN TODAY. To me that statement is pretty simple and self explanatory. But if I said that to my Dad he would have looked at me with the most confused look on his face. How do you plant a garden in a day, would be his question. I grew up […]
It Occurs To Me: Color me gone?
I’VE BEEN DESCRIBED AS MANY THINGS. My husband John likes to call me a hippie. I guess that is sort of true. I do want a commune, I like that the sexual revolution freed people to express themselves, I’m pretty liberal and I am all about eating organic, non-GMO, healthy food. I like my blue […]
It Occurs To Me: Book smart
JOHN AND I HAVE BEEN POLISHING UP HIS BOOK, “Online Dating Sucks … but it’s how I fell in love,” and I have to say, I married one stubborn guy. Allow me to take you back a few years. In January 2012, John was feeling pretty darn proud of the six months he had been […]
It Occurs To Me: Commune building
I WANT TO START MY VERY OWN COMMUNE. Well, maybe commune isn’t the right word. I think I just want all my people close to me. This last weekend John and I had our wedding reception. This isn’t the first marriage for either of us, and at our age there are no parents paying for […]
It Occurs To Me: Hard to swallow
FOOD IS A WONDERFUL THING. You eat healthy food and you thrive — simple, right? I guess if it were that simple there wouldn’t be TV shows like “My 600-pound Life.” For those people, food became much more than a way to stay alive — it became a way to fix old emotions and hurts […]