Over the past few days, I’ve been catching up on all my blog reading and was surprised to discover a bit of drama out in cyberspace.  Who would have thought?  But then I quickly reminded myself that behind each post and comment is a live human being with thoughts and feelings…and well, we humans are [...]

We live in sunny Arizona and exciting weather is really not a part of our makeup. We have hot as hell weather for about 4 months out of the year and then it’s gorgeous the remaining 8. However, the past week we have had rain everyday and then this evening we had tornado warnings! Tornado [...]

On Saturday, after our party, I collapsed on the couch and was honored with a visit from Daisy.  Actually, she was merely interested in the remnants of my high fructose corn syrup and sodium caseinate — aka: Cool Whip Salad.  Mama Puff, these photos are for you. She has a funny trait of always dipping [...]

Sigh.  Fat chance we’ll get any snow, although I’m sure glad we don’t have below freezing weather.  I talked with Mom this morning and she said that North Carolina has seen some serious cold weather.  Her house isn’t insulated (it’s an old Dutch Colonial) and even SHE is ready for a little warmer weather.  We [...]

I hope that everyone had a great New Year’s — ours was pretty mellow but still fun.  We hung out with the old folks and had our butts handed to us in a mean game of Scrabble.  It was pretty funny — one player is an ultra right wing conservative and the other is a [...]