Tag: funny
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Anticipating the First Day of School? Your Teacher Is, Too
And she wants an ideal year — just like you This week’s blog post will take you out of my personal blog site to Medium.com, where I usually cross-post what I write here first. I had to do it in reverse this week because I wrote this week’s blog for the Medium Writers Challenge. The […]
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My Reward for Suffering Poor Customer Service? A Promise of Less Service
I waited more than an hour for my doctor alone in an examining room before I decided I’d waited long enough. I opened the door to find the entire office vacant. What?
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Feeding my inner road rage
I wrote this while stopped in traffic, so it’s probably longer than it needs to be — just like my wait at 34th street. Today it took me four cycles of the traffic light to make it across, which gave me plenty of time to feed my road rage. This intersection at University and 34th Street is […]
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Santa’s helper needs some attention, apparently
On the outside, I sported a conservative, black wool coat, black tights and ankle boots with a red scarf — and a Santa cap jauntily angled atop my head. I wasn’t purposely hiding my elf dress. In fact, I was slightly disappointed by my reflection in the mirror as I left the women’s locker room this morning […]
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My baby turns 21 today
Parenting is a full-contact sport, a risky business, an often thankless task, and my greatest joy and still-in-progress accomplishment.
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When your hotel room comes with a little surprise
My hotel room for the conference came with a little surprise. Nothing much, really, just a man. A stranger. A face I could easily forget because when I opened the door to Room 3333 and saw the room was occupied, I closed it so quickly I never really looked at who I was rejecting. “Just […]
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One way to stop romance from messing up Valentine’s Day
On Valentine’s Day, my husband gave me a two-in-one gift that managed to remove any semblance of romance. Read this and learn.
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Shear terror? One way to kill a frog
I don’t like spiders and snakes — or frogs, actually, especially ones too close for comfort.
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Have to drink and run? Not fun
A “prepper for a colonoscopy” is merely a pooper, stockpiling nothing, flushing everything.
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When Trouble is a teenager and acts just like one
Our cat is like a teenager who shows up when she wants — and doesn’t when she doesn’t…
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Today’s workout goal? No sweat!
The reason was this: I had walked into the nearly empty locker room before 6 this morning in time to hear a woman in a wet swimsuit say, “The showers are closed?”
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The Scrooge of summer…
Ah, the 4th of July, when you celebrate in hot, buggy humidity along with everyone else and their brother’s vehicle on the road. Yay. Or bah humbug.
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Let the empty nest begin…
I have entered that period so many lament: the empty nest. My five children have left me one by one. But rather than lament it, I say…
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Six things I learned from back pain…
My back talks. When I listen, it tells me what to do. When I don’t, it gets downright bossy. Back pain, I’ve discovered, is a good teacher.
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Was this an unredeemable moment?
What kind of person can leave behind a tampon in a shower? Did it fall out, unnoticed? (Not bloody likely.)
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Lost in the translation…
Technical instructions, such as how to set up and use software, must be clear, step by step, and precise. And, for me at least, in English that is clear and precise. Therein lies the rub.
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First world problems…
A month without reliable cable and internet connections is like a month in which bill shouldn’t be paid. Right?
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Stream of cold consciousness writing…
My husband has saved me from curfew worry much of the time. He simply awakens me to let me know our child is home, and I am lulled, comforted, back to sleep. Except when the child isn’t at home by curfew.
All Things Work Together 