Monthly Archives: July 2010

Paging Dr. Leo Marvin

So I’m using a glib medical quote from one of my very favorite movies because I’m about to wade into the great medical coverage debate in America. If that’s not your cup of tea, please feel free to stop reading … Continue reading

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Luck be a lady tonight

So I have a very dear friend – my best friend in fact – who has had an horrific streak of bad breaks and tough luck over the last 18 months or so. Someone who had lived – and I’m … Continue reading

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Count your blessings

So, this will be a short blog, and a hard one for me to write too. I’m a person for whom her belief in God, and the belief in the notion that we will all be together again in eternity, … Continue reading

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It’s hip to be square

So while I was on my recent sojourn to California, I was ordering some delicious clam chowder in a bread bowl – and boy oh boy, is that one of life’s simple pleasures or what? – and my total order … Continue reading

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When is a routine not a routine?

So I am now officially housebound, tending to sick animals. I recently returned from a lovely vacation to California to visit my best friend, as well as to spend some time with some new friends who I met while a … Continue reading

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Be it ever so humble

So today, my parents and I made the very long trek to visit my great kid as he hit the halfway point of his stay at camp. Between a combination of Grandpa Vinnie offering helpful advice like “wake me if … Continue reading

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