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  • No wind. No rain. Or winter’s cold.

    At our wedding, My Guy and I danced to “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell version. It’s joyful and, perhaps most importantly, it’s short. Hell on earth is…

  • Welcome 2023. I guess.

    Crawling into bed at 12:01 this morning, Jan. 1, I realized that my elderly dachshund had pooed on the sheets. Not all over the sheets, but he’d done a drive-by wipe on…

  • In which I am roadkill.

    I got dressed today, cleaned my kitchen and did a solid two hours of work. That might be all I have in me. In the last three weeks, my FIL had a…

  • Right on, Bob. Right on.

    A guy my parents used to pal around with recently died. He dropped dead of a heart attack. To say it was a shock is an understatement. I don’t think we give…

  • Time travel through real estate.

    So, I almost started bawling in a stranger’s kitchen. This weekend, my family was given a tour of the house my grandparents built. They lived there from 1961 until they moved to…