[Author’s Note: If you read that title and immediately felt offended because you love your Crocs, please substitute the word “houseshoes” every time I wrote “Crocs.” Crocs are my houseshoes.]

[And if you’re still offended, substitute the word “pajamas.”]

I used to feel like a loser if I was watching TV at lunchtime on a weekday. Especially when I was watching a channel that ran a lot of ads which began “If you’re on a structured settlement and want your money NOW” or “If you’ve been hurt in a car accident” or “If you need DNA testing to prove he’s the father…”

I have some electronic housekeeping to do, namely cleaning up my email inbox. I’ve fallen behind in reading, filing, or deleting all that mail. In the real world, mail is my biggest challenge to keeping things tidy. It just never stops coming! I haven’t won the battle with mail in real life, but I haven’t […]

A couple of months ago I started practicing yoga. I had totally stopped exercising in the past year due to arthritis. Well, arthritis and a three-year-old. Well… arthritis and a three-year-old and laziness. (The truth always comes out in the end, doesn’t it?) Anyway, it was time to turn things around. I was pretty discouraged […]

Writing and keeping a journal is something I’ve enjoyed all my life. It’s also my eternal New Year’s Resolution because I’m not the most consistent writer. In fact I think I may go to a print shop and order a whole pad of paper printed with my resolutions so I don’t even have to write them out […]

There’s this relentlessly cheerful checker at the Kroger where I sometimes buy groceries. In the past I believed that no one could compete with over-caffeinated Starbucks employees in the arenas of wild-eyed enthusiasm and aggressive customer care, but this gal gives them a run for their money. She calls out the people in her line […]

Ron Mueck, Poke, 2017   Last Wednesday was my birthday so I asked my husband to play hooky from work and go see a sculpture exhibit at the Fort Worth Modern. We dropped the munchkin off at preschool and drove about an hour to get to the museum. The artist, Ron Mueck, is a favorite […]

Although in my youth I remember a fondness for the mantra “Death Before Disco” I guess I’ve softened as I’ve aged. I recently attended an exhibit of 1970’s and 80’s fashion that gave me lots of good vibes. I have to say I’m a bigger fan of it now than I was at the time. […]

That was the question emblazoned across the cover of a women’s magazine as I stood in line at the grocery store. It was years ago. I was already a wife, but not yet a mother. And this headline made me recoil. I suspect the story attached to that title was a well-meaning article reminding us […]