Autumn Cooking Urge Isn’t a Hallmark Movie
As I type this blog, post-season baseball is in progress. It is a chilly autumn day–the high will be in the mid-40s. I’ve been looking at the weather forecast all week, anticipating this day. Because I’m going to make chili for the first time this season. It’s perfect weather for it, and chili is the […]
Believe
Long before Ted Lasso hung his now-famous BELIEVE sign in the AFC Richmond men’s locker room on the Apple TV show bearing his name, I had the same message hanging on my office wall. An author friend sent me a button. And a former boss’s holiday card hung in my corporate cubicle until the day I […]
When People Know You Too Well
One of my favorite “comebacks” is rubbing my pinky finger and thumb together while saying, “See this? It’s the world’s smallest violin, and it’s playing just for you.” Well, a friend happened to be in Barnes & Noble a few weeks ago and found something just for me: And yes, it plays a sad, sad […]
Learning Patience
I’ve stopped letting things I can’t control bother me. There’s no point getting myself worked up over events I can do nothing about. I don’t mean big picture things–I can still call my politicians, write letters, donate money to causes that matter to me, but the every day annoyances that come with life no longer […]
August is the Sunday of Summer
I always feel as though society crams as much as it can into August, the last complete month of unofficial summer. A final gasp, if you will, of all the promises made at the beginning of the season. And frankly, it’s exhausting. Yes, I am blessed to have friends and things to do, and doubly […]
Curb Enthusiasm
The city in which I reside decided to replace the curbs on the main street outside my house. This has turned into a long, noisy project. While they have the street dug up, they’re also doing something to the storm sewers. The side street outside my office window turned into a parking lot for workers’ […]
Windows Problem Part 2
About a year ago, I purchased a new notebook computer, as my old one was getting slow, the audio was never any good, and it ran on Windows 10, which Microsoft was no longer going to support. I purposely chose one that allegedly had a Windows 11 operating system. I use a notebook computer when […]
Windows Problem Part 1
It’s nearly lawn mowing season in upstate New York. Last year, I noticed the person who mows our lawn skipped a big swath in our back yard. He left a message for my husband: he couldn’t mow the back of the lawn because it was covered in broken glass. We went out to investigate. Wow. […]
Jane Jetson Never Had This Problem
If you follow my blog, you know that I recently purchased a new stove. It has a gas cook top and what I believe is an electric oven that does a lot of different things: bake, air-fry, convection oven, broiler, dehydrator, and I don’t know what all else. It scares me a little bit. I […]
Roots
If you subscribe to my newsletter, you’ll know that last fall, I took clippings from the coleus I had in my yard and propigated them the way my grandmother taught me to do it. They rooted pretty quickly, which surprised me. The process didn’t work out so well the previous year. I dug up dirt […]