When it rains…

I am not meant to be a homeowner.  Mom, thanks ever so much for buying a fixer-upper and then immediately going Home. At least it’s paid for!
In the process of getting ready to let a couple of friends install my 5-yr-old shower, which, by the way, is a story of frustration in itself, I decided to finally [...]

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It’s not the company, I swear

I reallllly need to stop wondering what I’m missing.
I have well-meaning friends who try to include me in things every now and then, and somehow I have managed to be invited to their family post-Christmas dinners for the last few years. I, as a single embittered shrew, don’t feel that I have a lot to [...]

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Self-revelation’s the B-word

OK, so we all know I’m moody. We all know I am prone to road rage, and that I once pulled down half a tree with my bare hands. So really, I am a brat, and I hate figuring out things about myself that take away my rationalizations for my behavior. With that in mind, this [...]

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Mixed, Mashed, and Pounded into a Mold

I’ve been a busy little bee lately. Between concerts, injured babies, and the paying gigs in other towns, I have kept the road hot and the radar detector smokin’. Not to say I break the LAW or anything, officers. Nooooo. I would NEVER. I just have it to…um…to…OH! To beep every now and then to [...]

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Boo’s Home!

She is happily curled up next to me on the sofa, having gotten home from a week’s stay at the vet this morning. They put a rod in her bone that sticks out of the end and looks painful, but isn’t, apparently, to her. They wrapped the whole break with wire, too. She has to [...]

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I thought it was cute until it hit the floor.

I had a cat a few years ago that loved to show affection by stretching up on me like she was reaching up a tree. She never used her claws – it was all luuuuv. When she was almost a year old, I got another rescue kitten, and he learned the move from her. He [...]

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