I am doing my yearly post, and it is a command performance to comply with something Arwen tells me is a Meme, for which I have been "tagged" by totallyfrelled   I am to list 7 quirks, habits or facts. I am also to tag 7 other people but I have been excused from doing that. (Whew!)

Here are my, ahem, habits.

1.  Every day, one scoop of cheerios, one scoop of wheat ( Read more... )

It was a dark and stormy night. No, that is getting ahead of myself, and it is not even accurate. It was a dark night, and a potentially rainy night, and an increasingly cold night. None of these factors mattered while I was in line at a fast food joint, picking up dinner at what would hopefully be the last stop of a day that had already gone on ( Read more... )

Time Magazine said that blogging is the new American past time
.Having prided myself to be the last person to get a VCR, a DVD, and now, an IPOD, I think I am keeping to a trend and staying a safe distance behind the crowd on this trend as well.

A certain feline friend accused me today of being whipped for nudging him to write in his journal. Indeed ( Read more... )

My last story, and indeed only story, ended with a visit to a graveyard. Anniversaries start to fade with the passage of time. Today is such an anniversary, one that I would prefer not to be celebrating, the anniversary of the need for that grave site. When I mentioned it to my daughter, my companion in crime on the birthday trip, she had ( Read more... )

A certain daughter started following a fairly talented band, which has since imploded, and which was fronted by a fairly talented lead singer. She always wanted to see them live, but all the shows were up in North New Jersey, a wild and scary place for us country bumpkins in the southern part of the state. Then, this past July, they were a last ( Read more... )

The black ribbon of the Pennsylvania turnpike stretched before me ( Read more... )