To prevent me from getting to Starbucks for a venti iced cinammon macchiato with coconut milk, obvously! Duh. Or at least, that is all my screaming, caffeine-deprived mind can think of as a group of turkeys wander across the small-town road in front of me, blocking traffic in both directions. The big male turkey […]
Read More →Yesterday my coworker arrived at work bright and early (waaaaaay before me – i hate morning people) and unlocked our office door. As she opened it to turn on the lights and off the alarm (it doesn’t work the other way! i’ve tried!) a large bug raced out from the dark office into the light […]
Read More →“i have curly hair” could be the biggest understatement of the year. That, and “i only ate a few of those red hots”. (Does your stomach feel like you’ve been kicked by an angry goat after you’ve eaten an entire box too? Oh, you don’t eat the whole box at one time? Yeah…neither do […]
Read More →Viva Las Vegas!!! i’m here in sunny San Jose International Airport waiting to fly to even sunnier Las Vegas, NV. It’s spring break and i have an entire week to party!! (And by “party”, i mean lounge by the pool, lounge in the spa, eat good food, lounge some more…i am a real party animal.) […]
Read More →This weekend much of the western world celebrated St. Patrick’s day by wearing green, drinking copious pints of green beer, and listening to Irish music bands with names like The O’Malleys and Toad in the Hole. Bands who, one night a year, are fought over by dive bar booking agents who could care less […]
Read More →You know it’s a Happy Catastrophy-style day when it begins with a 70 year old ocean wind surfer in Santa Cruz and ends with sushi in San Francisco. Saturday morn, the Man surprises me by telling me we are taking the long way to The City tonight, (or, to translate the hip Bay Area lingo: […]
Read More →Fourscore and about 100 years ago, this was my home: Somehow i remember it being a lot smaller. And less beige. (Did it always have a second story?) In my memories, the sun is shining every day, Ma is hanging up the washing in the backyard to dry while Pa is off working hard to […]
Read More →“Ummm….I’m sorry….but you have smoothie on your shoe,” is not what you’d expect someone to say after you’ve just spent three hours with them in a professional capacity. Questions come to mind. Wait…what? Smoothie? How did she notice that? And why did she wait until i was LEAVING to tell me? These situations are so […]
Read More →At some point everyone thinks about what words will be written on their tombstone. Or is that just me? i mean, when i die, what short sentence can capture the essence of my life? i have had a couple of suggestions from beloved friends who know me (and my three-ring life), but i thought i […]
Read More →Not many of you are aware of a little-known fact about me: i am a certified Rescue Scuba Diver. You can stop laughing any time now. Yes, i have taken all the trainings and done all the things to become certified as a Rescue SCUBA Diver. Why, you ask? It all started with my love […]
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