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Selling a house in another state…getting down to the line…documents, documents, documents…but it is all possible to do on-line!  Documents sent via email, documents returned via email or fax, documents notarized, documents sent for over night delivery with the USPS.  While I was bitching in my head about the inconvenience this morning, I was, at Read more

I cannot speak for all women – but I speak for a lot of us.  We go to the hair salon pretty confident that the picture we saw in the magazine, on line, on Jane Doe at the mall is just exactly what we want for our hair.  I think most women have honestly had Read more

I thought Retirement was going to be like coming to a screeching halt.  On the day you finally walk out the door the sun will shine, the birds will sing and iron partitions will be between you and the mental chaos.  Well, it was almost like that.  In all of my years of dreaming of Read more

Or just freedom of copious amounts of undelegated time and responsibility that comes with retirement? I don’t remember a time when music that I like or music that I love didn’t have a positive influence on my inner well being.  Music that I don’t like can have me circling the drain in a few bars…bars Read more

I grew up over protected…a father who spent a lot of time thinking about things and preparing me for life.  As I look back at it now, I learned from him the skill of evaluating all of the known factors and then cautiously proceeding to the end goal….or not.  I had a mother who was Read more

I woke up,today and the idiot was already awake tweeting about hate and violence.  I’ve been a twitter follower for several years and my list has always been pretty tame and boring….the local news reporters, Meryl Streep…one time I saw a woman with really long hair in an airport so I followed Crystal Gale to Read more

After I dropped Jax off last night, I stopped at the garden center for bird seed….that’s a whole different mini series…I wanted a fresh tomato so bad that I checked every parking lot on the way home for a kind farmer and a pickup truck with the gate down…nothing.  Look what has reddened up on Read more

AKA my obsession with mail delivery.  As a 911 operator, you would not believe how many daily calls started out with…ya, there’s a dog!  Because we were public servants, those calls received the same type of service…they get a cop….as any other call…but we hated those calls and so did cops.  There was a joke Read more

Today was our first day to keep 6 month old Jameson along with his 4 year old brother.  I realized today that I’ve aged 4 years since Jax was a baby…and Jameson happens to be a chunky little monkey…weighing a little more than half of what his big brother weighs now.  At the end of Read more