So my husband and I went to the opening of a Costco in our town yesterday. For those who don’t know, Costco is a big, warehousey, super-store where customers pay the company $55 a year for the privilege of shopping in their establishment. (Whoever came up with that angle for increasing company profits is a […]
So I recently discovered― which means someone told me―a site for free eBooks called BookBub.com. Did you get that? FREE BOOKS! I love books! I have bookcases full of books! I have belonged at one time or another and sometimes at the same time to the Literary Guild, The Mystery Guild, Doubleday, and the Science Fiction […]
So I’m hooked on the show The Walking Dead which, to those of you not in the know, is about zombies. A zombie, according to Wikipedia, is an animated corpse resurrected back to life by mystical means. The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant […]
Okay, so I haven’t been able to think of any cool words lately so I did what any opposable thumbed creature with internet access would do. . . I googled Cool Words. To my great astonishment, 1,150,000,000 results popped up. I perused a few sites, each of which had oodles of supposedly cool words. Don’t […]
So I started doing a Jillian Michael’s workout DVD a few weeks ago. There is sweating and gasping involved which is why I usually avoid exercise of any kind. Unfortunately, I’m getting to that age (aaaargh!!!) where I need to do something before I turn into one of those blobs from Wall-E. But here’s the […]
So this morning I dragged myself out of bed, lurched through my morning routine and sometime between brushing my teeth and arriving at work I got it into my head it was Thursday. You know, Thursday, the best day of the week! Needless to say when I finally realized it was only Wednesday I was […]
Hence is a cool word because it makes you sound smart and authoritative. For example: Brushing and flossing daily will lead to good oral health hence no traumatic dental visits. (FYI― In my other life, I work for a dentist . . . just a little public service plug.) The archaic meaning of hence is […]
I woke up this morning, stretched, stumbled to the window, pulled back the curtain and what did my disbelieving eyes see? Yep, horizontal snow! For those of you not from Minnesota, North Dakota or any place else where snow and wind dance in weird, chaotic combinations, horizontal snow means that the snow, while coming down […]
Walking through fall leaves, winter snow, gravel paths and dirt roads makes such wonderful crunchy sounds. The crunchiness of dried autumn leaves snapping under my shoes, or the crisp crackle of new snow on my boots, or the raspy swish of gravel scraping against my soles brings such a feeling of comfort. Maybe it’s because […]
