Hope buds
News from around the old homestead: Two coyotes and one mountain lion so far this week. We've had some up-close-and-personal wildlife sightings this week. All of them, oddly, have been in our driveway, which is kind of long and has woods…
Annoying everything
Well, it's Monday. That's about the only reason I can find for why annoying people, and even an annoying animal, seem to be coming out of the woodwork today -- and it's still morning! There's plenty of time for more of them to show up! For…
I remember sleep
Boy, am I cranky. Oh, didn't you sleep well? No, as a matter of fact, I didn't sleep at all.
The great physician, Sir William Osler, once said, "The man who is well wears a crown that only the sick can see." I have always been struck…
I’ll get right to it
I have been meaning to write about procrastination for a while, but I kept putting it off. I've been procrastinating for years; one of these days I'm going to have to get some help for this problem. No, really, if it weren't for the last minute,…
My Green Doughnut
As Sister Margaretta confessed in “The Sound of Music,” Reverend Mother, I have sinned. Except her crime — tampering with a Nazi car to save Julie Andrews, and let’s face it, who wouldn’t do whatever it took to save Julie Andrews —…