The universe answers…and says “gotcha!”

“Things will be fine.  The sun will come out tomorrow.  Expect the best.  Be of good cheer.  It’s always darkest before the dawn.  Don’t invite trouble.  Everything will turn out okay.”  Add in a few thousand more “upbeat” cliches, and you’ll have my new mantra.
In previous posts, I’ve talked about a new neighbor moving in, [...]

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Silly is Good

I was thinking today how much I miss the silliness I used to enjoy with certain people who are no longer in my life.  It’s not that I don’t still do silly things.  It’s just that being around someone who is as silly as I am simply magnifies the silliness and makes it even more [...]

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A case of the “sads”…

I didn’t write anything yesterday because I was busy trying to outrun a big case of the “sads.”  The best way to describe this condition is to picture me as a tiny stick figure walking down a lonely road.  Above and slightly behind me is a huge, dark, furious-looking storm cloud and it’s moving in [...]

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My Imaginary Neighbors

I’ve talked here about the neighbor who’s going to move into Iris’ house next door and am aware that most of my misgivings are based on heresay and a few observations.  And it hasn’t escaped me that most of my feelings have been of a negative slant.
What I haven’t mentioned is that the townhouse on [...]

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Machines with attitude? You be the judge.

When I was small, I believed that all my dolls had human feelings, but now I know that really only a couple of them did.  I thought of the dentist’s drill as an evil monster, and that my grandma’s gigantic old-time vacuum cleaner was totally capable of turning itself on and coming after me with [...]

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Hanging in…

When your whole world
gets turned upside down,
it’s easy to become bitter…
But, giving into bitterness
is like wandering down a blind alley -
you’ll expend a lot of energy,
but you’ll never get anywhere.
The bad times are the times
that will reveal
what you’re really made of.
You can rise to the occasion
and come out like a fighter,
or you can cower in [...]

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A Matter of Faith

Sometimes the world weighs so heavily on me.  From the moment I wake up, the local news assaults me with drive-by shootings, car jackings, kidnappings, robberies and homicides – a horrendous array of man’s inhumanity to man, day after day, month after month, year after year.  Then comes the national news.  Violence is up.  The [...]

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I’m getting nervous…

A few posts ago, I wrote about my beloved neighbor, Iris, moving last week.  I fully expected her buyer to move in the day after Iris moved out, but nothing happened.  There was a big U-Haul parked in back for awhile, but no one ever moved anything.  I mean, isn’t it normal to feel curious [...]

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Is there a “neatness gene?”

I just finished watching the first three episodes of Season Two of “Dexter,” and frankly, I’m disturbed.  I’m not disturbed by the murders or the blood or even the fact that the F.B.I. is closing in on Dexter because I know he can take care of himself.  No, what bothers me is that his sister, [...]

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Seen my mind? Tell it I miss it.

Like me, most of my friends have been experiencing what they describe as “senior moments.”  Me, I prefer to call this phenomenon “temporary brain freeze.”  Makes all the difference, doncha know?
At any rate, this is when you walk into a room, only to realize you have no idea whatsoever why you’re there.  It’s as if [...]

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