November 2020

I just read a little piece on happiness. It was one of those little “inspirational” tidbits that come into my inbox each day. The opening line said, “Happiness is the art of living, the purpose of our existence. Happiness is the true index of quality of life. Without happiness, life is dry and meaningless.” And […]

Regrettable errors. I’ve been reminded of them a few times already today, and it’s only 4:11 a.m. Funny, I think, that when I looked at the clock, it was 4:11. That is the number we dial for information on our phones. Regardless, the information showing up today was concerned with people making errors. The first

I never learned shorthand. It was the name of it that sent me running. My feet are tremendously large for my height, as are my hands. I truly am, as they say, “big-boned.” Once, I had a gynecologist tell me that my hips were perfect for birthing children. A gynecologist’s way of saying, “My, how

There’s more to everything. More than you might expect, I’ll tell you. Take a simple can of condensed milk, for example. We’ve all used it, at some time in our lives. That crazy dessert idea. But a lot went into that can of condensed. It is, of course, cow’s milk. So we know the cow

Mostly, I like things to remain the same. A creature of habit, I am. I like the predictable in my own everyday goings of things. But as much as I, or anyone like me, enjoys a steady diet of the status quo, we are forever reminded that things are in a constant state of change.

We, women, owe a lot to the good women who came before us. While it has always seemed quite clear to me that I was — or should be — on equal ground as my male counterparts, it always surprised me when I found otherwise. My parents were fair people. To my knowledge, the boys

A lot of things happened on this date, historically. All of them notable, Some good, some bad, but all notable. The first one that struck me was Washington State. On November 11, 1889, they became an official member of the United States. We got them apples, alrighty. They were the 42nd state to come on

I had just turned eighteen at the end of my senior year in high school. Spring was in the air, graduation was near, and I was young. I convinced my parents that I didn’t need to stay at my brother’s house. They were going out of town for the weekend, to some kind of a