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mostly personal anecdotes where I sometimes try to be humorous

(maybe not always, Not everytime, but sometimes)

  • The Sam Chronicles: A Rant

    “Is she worth it?” If you suddenly feel this question coming out of your mouth and you’re talking to me, the high-pitched sound of someone slamming on their brakes at top speed to avoid a disastrous incident with an immovable object better have played in your head before even the slightest little hiss pops out…

  • The Sam Chronicles: Surgery

    As most of you know, today we start the lengthy process of getting our beagle Sam back on track to being the goofy, glad to greet the world, ever-starving, flappy earred mess that we love and adore. Sam recently tore her cranial cruciate ligament (CCL), which is a lot like your ACL – it’s one…

  • Post to Friends: My Dream

    Every year I’m asked what I want for my birthday, just like the rest of you, and I sit on Amazon trying to think of things I wouldn’t mind collecting dust on a bookshelf; it’s my annual birthday/Christmas routine. But you know what I really want? and not necessarily for my birthday? I want as…

  • BBM: The Christmas Edition or How I’ll Miss My Aunt Philis

    Well, the most notable thing to happen this holiday season is I had to disown my aunt. I feel really sad about it since she’s the last of my grandmother’s children, the last solid connection to my Mom, but it had to be done. I’m going to miss her. She’s a great aunt – one…

  • Rant: Tech Support

    Well, it seems I can’t avoid a rant and since Jay claims I can’t just rant at an individual on my blog (something about how the rest of you were crinkle your brows and wonder why I went off the anti-psychotics), I’ll try to pick on a topic everyone can relate to – Tier 1…

  • Milestones

    We’re a world filled with milestones or rite of passages or atta-girls-way-to-go or whatever you want to call it when you’ve managed to accomplish something a little more exciting than consuming oxygen. You know those special occasions where only a Hallmark money holder card can properly express “yay”. There was the first birthday – well,…

  • For Mom (1941 – 2006)

    With each passing year Veteran’s day, the day I unexpectedly lost my mom, becomes easier. There were a couple of unexpected and jarring bumps that managed to put a bit of an edge back on the day. Two friends lost parents within the last week (Esther Arbuckle and Orville Jennings). I’m at a complete loss…

  • Family Tree Maker

    Many years ago, my good friend Anna got me into Family Tree Maker, a great piece of software for tracking your family tree. With this application, the help of chatty relatives, and the apps’ online search capability, I’ve managed to go from a tree that only extended through my great-grandparents to one that reaches back…

  • Friendship

    Lately, as I spend more and more time interacting with people online, I’ve been thinking about the nature of friendship. What makes a friend a friend versus an acquaintance? When does an acquaintance make that transition to become a friend? I obviously can’t speak for everyone, but I think I can identify a criteria that…

  • Dear

    I think I’ve mentioned that my blog entries are ostensibly letters without the “Dear” (I was never a “dear” sort of person) and for those friends who got a kick out of my letters. Old news for you guys. When you see several week lulls, I’m caught up in the every day stuff that is…

  • My Characters

    A few weeks ago a group of us were sitting around our table telling stories and one of my friends pointed out that I was surrounded by characters. I’ve heard this before, but it did make me wonder – am I drawn to colorful people, do I bring out certain outrageous qualities or do I…

  • The Listener

    I had lunch with “the guys” earlier this week – former co-workers that helped make one of my many stupid jobs bearable. These are “the guys” who call me by my first name (and get away with it, because there’s no point fighting it and if I whine, they’ll only post the whine on their…

  • Tenacity Prevails!

  • (Insert Your Photo Here)

    Hmph. Well, either Blogger or the Interwebs don’t seem to want you to see a photo of Sam. So, I’ll describe her – she’s beagle-y, all ears and nose with four paws and exceptionally cute. (I’m exceptional at descriptions – you can practically see her frolicking about now.) If the web relents, I might actually…

  • Sam Update: Revelations

    For you Sam groupies out there, here’s an update — We recently learned Sam loves chicken. Sure, as a beagle she lives for her nose and all the neat things it can snuffle out (rule of paw – the smellier the better), but food is food is food to Sam (and sometimes food can be…

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