Oklahoma City, 15 years later

Many of you know I was born in OKC and spent my first years there. I figure I have a better reason than Bill Clinton to weigh in on the tragedy, and so I will. I remember standing at the counter in a southern California deli when I first heard the news. We had our [...]

Hugs for Randy in Richmond

Randy’s father passed away last night. Randy has been the primary caregiver for his dad for a while. Dad had late-stage Alzheimer’s disease. You can’t have hung out with me over the last year without spending time with Randy, too. I’ve said it before, but it’s always fun to repeat: I don’t know exactly how [...]

The pantry

I’m going to live. I started breathing on my own this afternoon – well, not exactly on my own. There was a heavy dose of decongestant involved, but they worked. Boy did they! I realized I must be feeling better because I had a sudden urge to clean out the pantry. Oh, boy. To be [...]

You aren’t going to have much sympathy for me.

My laptop died again. All of you loving your Macs do it now and get it over with: “You should have bought a Mac!” Well I didn’t. So now it’s obvious this little lovely is a lemon, it’s going to the shop, under warranty thank goodness, to see if any life can be coaxed from [...]

Into the trash they go.

I’m still working on the back room. It’s really exciting to be at the point of rearranging contents versus dumping the clutter. One of the boxes that remained was my file of campaign finance information from 2006. How long do I have to keep this stuff? Well it’s been a few days, but someone finally [...]