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My father is a stubborn man. He is set in his ways. He likes to be grumpy and cynical and there’s nothing that we can do to change that. He never asks for directions and he always has the last word. But I discovered recently that even my dad can change.
You see, my dad has [...]

I stopped giving out Christmas gifts many years ago. There is just too much happening during the Christmas season. Winter vacations, holiday dinner parties and other events take up all of my time. Shopping for Christmas presents was stressing me out too much.
For awhile, I felt guilty about not giving gifts. There is a sense [...]

You know what creek I mean.  Let’s just say I’ve run afoul of some legal issues; ok, some major legal issues.  The police kind of think I stole a car, but I didn’t really.  I mean, I did, technically, but in reality, I didn’t.  They only think I did because my boyfriend said that.  Well, [...]

When I got my first “in loving memory tattoo” it was only because the other fellows in the group I ride mountain bikes with got one. Not that I don’t like it, nor that I didn’t want it, but I would not have thought to get that particular style of tattoo as my very first [...]

Next month, colleges and universities around the nation will hold graduation ceremonies to honor their current group of graduates.  Student will get to walk across the stage to get their university diploma and cap off their college careers. What happens next depends a lot on what the graduate has planned.  Many will buy a college diploma [...]

My cat has cat furniture.  I have a room just for her stuff.  I did not plan it in the beginning, but when my children left the nest; her stuff just was moved into the empty room over time.  I put her scratching posts in their first.  My thought was if that is in their, [...]

I live right beside our county fairgrounds.  Most of the year, it is really nice because my house is right beside a large, open field.  However, two weeks out of the year, I am subjected to complete chaos.  The noise is insane.  The fair does not close down each night until 1:00 am, so getting [...]

Do you have a dog as a pet? Do you keep your dogs indoors most of the time or let it hang out in the yard by itself? Some breeds do better indoors and others do better outdoors and it’s really important for people who own dogs to make sure that they know what is [...]

I’ve blogged before about how much I hate KBDI, but when I came home last night they were actually running a special about John Denver, and I found it pretty interesting.  No matter that they kept referring to PFLAG manning their telethon phones; at least the subject itself wasn’t radical left-wing propaganda.
I suppose they felt [...]

We are just barely entering the season of spring but it’s already time to start thinking about summer, isn’t it? If you want to make any big changes to your home or yard for summer events and parties then you need to start thinking now about those changes.
Here are some ideas for how to bring [...]