My husband, while spectacular in many ways, has a fear that is shared with many guys his age. There is no pill for it or even a support group. It is more prevalent than the fear of snakes, flying, or clowns and it is, as far as I can tell, completely denied by the...
In just 8 days, it will be Christmas and in Eastern North Carolina there are few Christmas trees to be found hanging around waiting to be adopted and dressed for the season. I find this odd since in my Nutmegger days, this is about when you might start looking for...
Thanksgiving is when many of us will be facing the people we try to avoid most of the year… our family. For a very few of us it is a time of deep conversations with loved ones, for the rest of us this is when we head for deep cover to avoid the annual argument....
Today is Mother’s Day. In the US it is a Hallmark Holiday. In the television commercials sparkling children are delivering sweet or sappy cards to their moms and grandmothers either on their own or with the help of their wise fathers… I’m not even going to say...
The world has survived another Valentine’s Day. The sadly single and miserably coupled have gotten through the sappiness of all the dopey love birds surrounding them. Come Thanksgiving time there will be the annual baby boomlet. With that understanding, all of you...
My bathroom is getting a minor makeover. The countertop and sink are being replaced. The contractor, my beloved spouse, said that it would be completed today. Like all good contractors, he lied. The completion date has been moved out for two more days until Wednesday,...
My husband is of Italian descent and that means, for him, food is love. I am a Heinz-57 conglomeration and that means, for me, food is sustenance. So every holiday we have a little tango about the appropriate menu, which I (who makes outstanding reservations and not...
Today is Veterans’ Day in the US, Armistice Day in other countries. On this date in 1918 an armistice, a peace agreement, was signed which took effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month to end the hostilities on the Western Front. And...
I really hate to bring this up since it is only mid-October, but someone on Facebook posted a visual rant regarding Happy Holidays vs. Merry Christmas – with a virulent “SHARE IF YOU AGREE” in red at the bottom. Their point being that Merry Christmas is what you...
From home town coffee shops to the edifices in Washington there is an outcry to put “boots on the ground” in a variety of places throughout the world. None of them pleasant. The call to arms referenced as well protected feet takes away the reality of the sentient...
