We all have those days that after a couple of hours it becomes clear we should just scrap it. Some days we don’t need a full 24 hours to know this one is akin to the first pancake — toss it out! I think every day last week fell into that category. By week’s end I…

Everyone has inside jokes with family, friends and/or spouses. It’s part of what makes those connections fun. With the lift of an eyebrow, the catch of eye contact, you know what the other one is thinking — immediately. Often these jokes can be relived through a word or phrase. Home Depot My husband, John, has…

The older I get the more accepting I get of quirky.  Perhaps that is because we all tend to get a little quirky as we age.  Of course, I don’t think of myself as quirky, old, odd or anything less than super cool.  Lately, though, I have seen the looks that my girls give me…

Saturday afternoon started with the search for one set of keys and a spare. It’s a real show of how put together we are at my house. We didn’t even know the spare key was missing until a whole set of keys was lost. But we got serious and made a concerted effort to find…

Last week I found myself in a real life Nancy Drew mystery. Let me start at the beginning. My hubby was traveling on the east coast so my daughter and pups were all sleeping with me. At 4am the phone rang and it was my hubby. While I had the clarity of mind to think,…

We are all connected. We are all part of each other. “We are all just walking each other home,” as Ram Dass said. But we forget this. We put a fair amount of importance on the big picture and it’s easy to use this to start generalizing when we zoom too far out. We begin…