Publix – Where Shopping is a Pleasure as long as you …… bring your own marshmallow and do not, under any circumstances, refrigerate your cake cutter with your cake If you live down here in the Southeast, you probably love Publix as much as I do. However, these two packages really made me wonder. Did a […]
Where is Emily Post When I Need Her?
This blog is intended to elicit comments and opinion – please chime in! A few years ago, I ran a one mile race with Wayne Kevin. I wasn’t really training at all at the time, so it was a fairly dismal effort on my part. Poorly trained or not, some primal brain cells deep in […]
Wordless Wednesday
This sign just made me chuckle. I guess graduates get only one “congratulation.” And I really am curious about the details of getting $15 off the free dinner! I will admit that one of the reasons we chose this particular Japanese steakhouse (on June 20) was the “Two dine for $29 after 9 p.m.” promotion. When they said […]
A Little Kid Imagination
Perhaps it is folly to try to blog in the midst of a vacation trip, after two mai tais. But I have a commitment to myself (and you) to write once a week so here goes. A few observations from an unexpected trip to the “happiest place on earth.” 1. It is an amazing treat to […]
Wordless Wednesday
As the parent of a teenager, I have stopped being surprised at irritating text messages from my daughter. They pretty much mirror the dialogue we share in person, in emails, and during phone calls. Last Wednesday, Tenley was fulfilling her weekly commitment to help my mother-in-law. She had been there a little longer than her shift usually […]
Five Decades of Lessons
Whenever I read something that has “blogworthy” potential, I file it electronically. My file is growing. When I read Thursday’s Daily Good, published by Charity Focus, I immediately knew that the post’s “Be the Change” directive to “reflect on the greatest lessons from each decade of your life” was going to be my blog topic […]