Surviving the good old days
As I was scraping paint off our century-old porch posts and treating it as the proper-biohazard that it is due to the lead menace...
Getting hammered on home improvement
There are just some things no woman ever wants to hear from her spouse including: "Honey, I've met someone.
Old friends are never forever gone
Yesterday an old friend from high school, back in touch via one of the many online "social networking sites" that allow you to log...
Home alone
No matter how much you love each other, I think that too much togetherness after 20 years together may be more than is strictly needed. I say this with love, but I need to miss a person.
What’s the recipe for a good family dinner?
Leave it to those same fine souls who brought us "cocoa powder" that tastes nothing like actual chocolate, in any form, to be up...
Memoirs of a Bat Girl
It is clear that despite my long-standing personal “hands off” policy toward nature, I am destined to go down in history as one of...
Friends wanted for playdates and coffee
Paris Hilton needs a new best friend. Nicole Richie, former faithful sidekick, has gone and selfishly had a baby. So what’s a celebrity to...
Taking the low road to high speed
After three calls and two return calls in two days, Kymberly Foster Seabolt discovered the cable company responds better to a tantrum than asking nicely.
Zip my lips, zip my lips, zip them all the way
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you and, more horrifyingly, found underneath your Christmas tree.
How was the West won without bottled water?
Since the onslaught of 40 days of rain, the term "French drain" has been whispered in my ear. Let me assure you, it is not as sexy as it sounds.
