Category Archives: REALITY

Blogging may be even more personalized than we imagined. I haven’t been in physical contact with anyone that’s had the flu lately, but I almost feel like I’m coming down with it. That leaves you people out there. All the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Got sidetracked this morning by a posting by Wanderlust regarding Israel’s West Bank Barrier that set me thinking about my own reality and level of tolerance and understanding versus taking a strong position. This led to the question of self-centeredness … Continue reading → Continue reading →

THIS JUST IN: At age 50+ I can still do an almost-full split. Damned ice. (This news brought to you by the “Dig Deep for the Silver Lining Club”) Continue reading →

Things that make me miss my mother: A friend pointing out the cleverness of putting an elastic band over the two handles of a pot to keep the lid on in transit; sewing curtains; the recipe for churst; the strudel … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, everything in the house has been ironed flatter than a pancake and put away. What hasn’t been ironed has been sucked up into the vacuum or wiped up along with the dust by the magnetic magic of Pledge Dusting … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Friend Neha has commented on my odd hours as noted by my posting times, and I must explain that winter does seem to throw me off routine a bit. With my December harried work schedule and my semi-free January ways, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well I’ll be darned. (Not quite as earth shattering and requiring the expletive as when finding out you may be a Liberal.) It’s snowing! There’s nothing quite like not expecting it and looking outside before it’s fully light to be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well I’ll be damned. One thing I really try to avoid on this site (and in my life as well) is politics, but I found a link to this quiz on Snowball in Hell which is mighty fine reading in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I wish you love and happy things. I wish you friendship and the joy it brings. I wish you the sight to see the things in everyday life and what it means. I wish you inspiration in common sights. I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Once you get started, you can come up with all kinds of ways to resolve to be a better human being. I’m not even marking down the obvious ones, like do a good deed every day, help those in need, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s been a good year—as far as years go—and although the magic moment that transforms one digital date into another never really meant all that much to me, I will fall for the resolution thingie this year and go ahead … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of my problems with flying time is most likely one of my own making. I am up and around in the early morning hours and therefore the next day comes quicker for me than it does for the lazy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, as is almost always the case, the computers start acting up right after Christmas. I’m trying to simply stare one down into working properly–it’s the main computer in the house, and the only one connected to the cable so … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s here, and I’m feeling good about Christmas now. As a professional service retailer, it’s tough to have the Christmas spirit when all of November and December you’re under extreme pressure to get an overload of work finished at once. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Since I don’t know if I’ll have time before tomorrow morning to do this, let me wish you all the best of the season, the merriest Christmas, the health and prosperity of the promising New Year, the happiest of time … Continue reading → Continue reading →