In memory of Fat Buddy Often, when someone loses a beloved pet, we just shrug it off and think ‘it was just an animal’. But as all pet owners know, losing them is like losing a member of the family. I have a friend who just lost a friend — one that she has had [...]

Dear Media People, Why are you all falling all over one another to get a personal quote, or a snippet of gossip concerning people who are doing things that nobody cares to read about? Do you actually feel this is the kind of reporting that will win you a Pulitzer? Although it does raise a [...]

Speaking of bodywork and plastic surgery — okay, I know we weren’t speaking of anything at all yet, but let’s pretend we were. Did you know that dogs can now have plastic surgery? According to a news article I read in a Seattle newspaper, written by Mei-Ling Hopgood of Cox News Service, a Veterinarian Edgado [...]

Hello Internets. I’m back. Finally. It’s been a long week without you. What do you mean, “have I been away?” Well heck yeah! On Thursday night, I was at my computer when my router-DSL-box-thingy — whatever it’s called — suddenly went from all green lights to one red light and I could no longer access [...]

* Mother and Son The child is like clay in the palm of our hand; we shape him and mold him the best that we can. We chip and we chisel, we smooth out the rough, and yet we still wonder if we’ve done well enough. By the time we have finished, the man is full grown; [...]

Well, bless my sweet Vidalia onion!  You can’t swing a cross lately without hitting a vampire. What is all this fascination with them lately? According to the Teen Choice Awards which were held in Universal City, CA on Sunday, Aug. 8 — vampires rule. The “Twilight Saga” dominated last Sunday’s ceremony with 12 wins, including choice fantasy [...]

I may or may not have posted this on my old blog, I can’t remember. So if you’ve already read it, please excuse me. You may or may not enjoy it any more than you did the first time, or whatever. It’s just too hot here to really think about writing something from scratch…and I [...]

Fruitcakes. The world is full of fruitcakes. And spam. Lots of spam. I’ve been away from my blog for a few days and when I checked out the comments today, I discovered over six hundred comments in the spam folder. Before I delete the spam messages I always check to make sure that they are [...]

I have decided to take a mini-vacation this week but hopefully I’ll be back with some new stuff soon. In the meantime, I am reposting an older column, which you may or may not have read. Either way, I hope you enjoy it. If you’ve already read it, click on some of the links in [...]