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I've been MIA again but I have excuses. (1) Daughter home for a week or so (2) Son home for Memorial Day (3) Meeting a deadline--today--...

I have a few things to say about American Idol before the season gets filed in the TV archives. Many people have told me and I have often re...

Yesterday I ran errands until after six, coming home hot, ragged, annoyed because the library has misplaced three tapes I know I turned in. ...

Nice weekend for mothers. I'm a mother and I got my turn too. And I will avoid making the obvious comments such as Mother's Day is...

Not much time today. It's Friday and as always I have things to do on Fridays. However a sense of routine is a good thing. At least f...

Since Tim is travelling, Hillary and I watched "American's Next Top Model" and the results from "American Idol" with...

I love American Idol, but haven't written about it in this space before. (Hmmm...maybe once a while back). Usually I unspool my jewels o...

You've heard of continental drift, I'm sure. How as the earth formed and reshaped itself, the continents moved closer together, the...

Yes, even the powers that be at Blogger forgot who I am. Either that or they've figured out a way to make me "join." So here I...

There is nothing I like better than to check my calendar and find there is NOTHING ON IT. One plain blank square! A day without an obligati...

Okay so I wrote my goals yesterday and it was exhilerating. However, I never did make it out to the garage! Is that crazy? By the time I got...

Okay so the end of 2006 fell in a hole. It's done, over, finito. Now for the NEW YEAR and a FRESH START. January Goals 1. Write. I am ...

Okay I needed to get over it and I think I am...finally. I won't list all the petty little things that are broken, malfunctioning, or j...

I won't dwell on this, but I do want it on the record. The post-partum of Landmarked has settled in. While I'm pleased I managed ...

Returning from the nether regions, my daughter comes home today. As a matter of fact, I'm just waiting for my hair to dry in the velcro...

I started my first novel in the fifth grade puple ink on lined notebook paper about the Twellingtons. There were 11 of them, including two ...

She IS charming. Trish and I drove down to the Torrance Borders to have coffee with her. It was fun to hear about her new book which is go...

I can't believe how lucky I am, but then, I don't think it's really luck. It's one of those universal truths that most of u...

Sadly the class I'm taking with Kerry Madden is over. All that is left is the reading at Vroman's on Sunday at 3:00. The opportuni...

Of course I put myself there on the pool table when the felt was brand new. Now it’s full of rips and bald spots. And I like hunkering dow...