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Shake it up
As you may recall, dear reader, last time I wrote I was kind of in a funk. I can’t say I’m completely out of that funk (such is the nature of depression), but I am not the type of person to sit and...
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Attacking the Hard Questions
I looked at my to-do list this morning and I sighed deeply. Today was going to be a busy day. Fitting this long list of items into a typical day was probably just short of impossible, but many of the...
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The Contentment Conundrum
Many of my readers ask me where my inspiration to write comes from, or where I get my ideas. When they do, I tend to feel like the Emperor once he realizes the truth about his new clothes. I know there...
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In Memoriam
If you’re like me, dear reader, you are looking forward this weekend to the unofficial start of summer. I, too, am looking forward to the ever-rarer days when we can give our office a day off at the...
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The Best Seats in the House
One of the joys of working for a theater (and there are a few) is the opportunity to see a variety of wonderful presentations and performances that I would normally have to drive a substantial distance...
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The Birthday Girl
As I write this, I am sitting under a heat bonnet at Unique Salon getting a brand new ‘do. Karin has been after me for months to do some fun color; she knows me pretty well by now, and know that in my...
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The Death (?) of a Trumpet Vine
Ah, spring. The season with the most promise for new ideas and projects, a time for recommitting ourselves to our outdoor endeavors and making things fresh and new. It’s also a time for growing and...
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Shelter from the “Storm”
Well, we all made it through February relatively unscathed. Weather records tells us that last month was the coldest month on record for Rome. Not just the coldest February; the coldest month. Let that...
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The Un-Lunch
My grandmother turned 90 this past July. That is, as I would say and often do, an awful lot of livin’. She is a wise, sassy, funny, mischievous, lovely imp of a lady when she is at her best. I...
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The Snow Angel
Ah, winter. Cloaked in white, sparkling in the sunlight, crunchy underfoot. If I had my druthers, I would sit in the library in a big comfy sweater with a nice cup of cocoa and gaze at it through the...
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Down in the mouth
My teeth and I haven’t always agreed. Though I went for semi-regular checkups as a child, for most of my adult life I had not had dental insurance and consequently avoided dental checkups. I had a few...
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Little Wild Woman
At the risk of sounding like a crazy cat lady, this is another column about cats. The cat in question, however, is not one of our own cats or Kallie at the Capitol. This week I am cat-watching for my...
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Green-tinted dreams
It’s been pretty chilly lately, as is often the case in wintertime. I am not one of those who “hates” winter; rather, I tend to observe the passing of the seasons with a fatalism that keeps me from...
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Skinny Cat
Art and I have a cat named Sam. Though Sam predates me by several years, he has finally accepted me as a co-habitant (after 7 years of thinking about it). Sam also has hyperthyroidism, an endocrine...
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The Great Walmart People Watch
True confession time: I was shopping at Walmart the other day. I know people rag on Walmart and its corporate policies quite a bit, and the “typical” people who shop there are infamous throughout the...
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The spirit of the season
What a whirlwind few months. I feel like Rip Van Winkle–it seems I just blinked my eyes and the world has sprung from October to December. Truth be told, though, while my eyes were closed, I was told...
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Happy is what you make of it
Recently, an article appeared on the website CreditDonkey.com titled “Study: Happiest Cities in New York.” Through a variety of collected data and wide extrapolations, they determined that Rome was the...
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Counting my blessings
Art and I like to watch independent and foreign films whenever we can. Usually, we have to leave Rome to see these movies, whose accolades seem to have reached every corner but ours. This weekend,...
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One Weed at a Time
My in-laws–one of whom I had the pleasure to meet while they were alive, one of whom I did not–were industrious, fastidious people. While working one or more jobs and maintaining an active social life,...
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It doesn’t matter if they like you
I had a revelation the other day (and no, it isn’t that I should be better about writing this column, though I have also come to that conclusion). I had the revelation that it doesn’t matter if...
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