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letting chips fall
Today is National Chocolate Chip Day (yay!). To celebrate (and to give everyone a few chuckles at a time when we could all use a batch or two), I thought I’d rerun this post from several years ago. It’s me at my Lucy best in the kitchen – always a recipe for laughter. Enjoy – […]
good tidings
Post-eclipse aside, it just doesn’t seem like the sun (metaphorically, in this case) shines very much these days. But just when it seems like we’re facing the dark side of the moon, figuratively, finding one’s light can really help. Even if it’s just for a few moments, letting the sunshine in can surely mean the […]
candle scandal
They say that age is just a number. Okay, then, here’s a number for you – 66. Yup. Today is my 66th birthday, the start of my 67th trip around the sun. And, if I’m perfectly honest with myself (the person I find it the most difficult to be perfectly honest with – don’t we […]
my life as a meerkat
If you’re familiar with meerkats, you know that they are adorable-looking creatures, with patches around their eyes, known for standing up on their hind legs a lot of the time and always focused on what’s above them. (Google them – they’re cute.) Like skinny little sentries, they stand guard for their friends and themselves, always […]
something stinks
At first I thought that TV commercials with bears explaining to us how to use toilet paper was the epitome of talking down to an audience. Bears? Really? Of course, that might answer the age-old question about whether bears do their business in the woods. But, aside from feeling a bit put off, that does […]
reading the room
For someone who reads as much as I do, it might come as a surprise that I’ve only belonged to one book group – and that my tenure there lasted only through a few books. Not because of the “book” part (although the choices were not my thing) but because of the “group” thing – […]
we are a-mused
There is a wonderful recent New Yorker cartoon showing two baby boomers watching the Grammys and knowing none of the performers – until, with a sigh of relief, they recognize Joni Mitchell. That cartoon could have been created about B. and me. Indeed, in watching the awards show a couple of nights ago, we found […]
laughing through the snow
One more from the holiday archive. This post made me – and a lot of my readers – laugh when it first appeared in this blog several years ago. And because laughter is the best gift I can give you all right now, I thought I’d enhance it (including a new title), put a big […]
do you hear what i hear?
I first wrote a version of this blog post a few years ago under a different title; given how much we can all benefit from laughter this holiday season, I thought I’d reprise – and revise – it here, adding a few more chuckles per column inch. May all your celebrations be bright. (Helpful hint: […]
day lights
While Thanksgiving is almost here (yay, stuffing!), finding gratitude in these uncertain, uncharted times is not always easy. “May you live in interesting times” has never felt more double-edged, nor the hunger for peace of mind more acute – a hunger that not even the most delicious Thanksgiving feast can sate. But. In these days […]
rice on your head 