If you call me, I won’t answer. You can try to reach me on my cell or on our ancient landline. But I won’t answer. I use my cell phone for everything from watching exercise videos to playing word games. It’s my camera and my map of the world. The thing monitors my heart and […]
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Fighting About Money
In many ways, my husband and I are opposites. Not in ways you can immediately discern by looking at us, but in the most fundamental ways. For example, he doesn’t like peanut butter and thinks mayonnaise and Miracle Whip are interchangeable. To me, that’s stark, raving madness. In the interest of equal time, I count […]
Nifty 50 – What You NEED by this Birthday
Jennifer Aniston turned 50 this month! It was big celebrity news! I, too, turned 50 this month! On this milestone birthday, I took a moment to reflect upon the knowledge and skillsets vital at the half-century mark. By 50, you should have: ■ A retirement plan. ■ An acceptance that you’ll never retire. ■ A […]
How to Beat the Winter Blues
“If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life but still the same amount of snow.” Anonymous. Winter blues. Seasonal affective disorder. Call it what you will, but a lot of us feel that unmistakable blah of winter. The first person to put up holiday decorations […]
Word of the Year
We’re barreling toward the mid-2020s. Whoa. I’ve just ordered my Jetson style-flying car from Amazon. 2023 does sound like we’ve arrived in the future. Be that as it may, we still have to take out the garbage, empty the dishwasher, and clean our houses. We do have smart appliances, doorbells, cars, and thermostats, so a […]
Kitchen Renovation
Our kitchen was built in 1999. It was very 1990s. While this isn’t the exact kitchen, in fact, I can’t even FIND a picture of it from when we first moved in, 23 years ago, this is pretty much the style. Perfectly lovely, and what a lot of kitchens looked like back then. We loved […]
Toss Holiday Traditions That Cause Stress
I’ve written about the benefits of minimizing clutter, whether you’re a Marie Kondo fan or a Swedish Death Cleaning type. With the former, you keep what brings you joy; with the latter, you toss everything to spare your kids the job after you go. When we think of clutter, we think of mismatched socks, paperwork, dead […]