My daughter and I were in Target last weekend browsing the cosmetics when we came across a dress… hanging off a shelf of mascara and eye shadow. Now what is that about? Someone had decided she didn’t want the dress and just left it there, not six feet away from its proper display. I lifted […]
Yesterday for my birthday, my family baked me a cake. From scratch. And hand-decorated it, too, with those tiny silver cake decorating tips that I loved watching my Mom use to make edible works of art when I was a little girl. The cake was so beautiful, I didn’t want to eat it. But then […]
Okay, you know the name alone made you pause and giggle. Even more, you can’t help yourself: you have to look at the picture. The Naked Mole Rat. Native to Africa, this three-inch-long rodent is hairless and wrinkled with a rat-like tail and strong, protruding teeth. Some have said it resembles a bratwurst — or worse, a part of […]
The other morning, my husband purchased a new computer and got it set up in our office before the kids got home from school. The moment our son walked through the door that afternoon, he said “You got a new computer!” He hadn’t yet stepped into our office and couldn’t see it, and all the […]
You remember me from school, don’t you? I was always the one placed in the front row for class pictures and chorus. While others got to be the towering pine trees in the school play, I was the shrubbery. Ankle-biter. Shorty. Smurf. I’ve heard all the nicknames. I’ve always been petite. My daughter started to borrow my […]
On the ninth day after my son got his learner’s permit, we took a drive down the street to the post office with him behind the wheel. He pulled into a narrow parking space that terminated in a large concrete wall. As he inched closer and closer to the wall, I gripped my arm rest tighter […]
Last night, my husband and I watched the DVD of The Box, a sci-fi psychological thriller starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as Norma and Arthur Lewis, a couple in dire financial straits. A mysterious man delivers a seemingly innocuous box to their home and tells them that they will receive $1 million in cash if they will […]
Sometimes I talk to myself. Like yesterday when I came out of the grocery store. An older woman was loading her groceries into her trunk and had left her empty shopping cart directly behind my car. As I approached my vehicle, I expected her to move the cart; but instead, she got into her car […]
How many times each day do you Google? Like Xerox and Kleenex (and Coke if you’re from the South), Google has reached the pinnacle of brand recognition by becoming the generic term for the broader product — in this case, search engines. I easily use Google’s search engine dozens of times each day, and it immediately […]
Did you know that March 23, 2010, is National Puppy Day? The day was established to encourage adoption of puppies from reputable shelters instead of from pet stores or puppy mills where they can be mistreated or get substandard care. I got my childhood dog, Spot, from the Humane Society when I was in kindergarten. […]