AS I SEE IT
Where has professionalism gone? (9/22/03)
Whatever happened to professionalism and doctors who dress like doctors?
Take pictures of everything and everyone all the time (07/28/03)
Be sure to take lots of pictures. I tell this to my daughter when she talks about something cute her niece has done. I tell this to my co-worker when she talks about her upcoming trip to Germany. I tell this to my mother when she has a flower that …
Door isn't greener with new can of paint
I give up. I have been trying to paint our front door for over a month. We easily agreed on a color. That should have been my first clue that this was not to be.
The bulbs beckon (9/29/03)
Everywhere I go lately bulbs, corms and rhizomes are begging to immigrate into my yard. These tiny storehouses of beauty beckon me like the sirens called to Jason and the Argonauts. Unlike these ancient sailors from Greek mythology, I have no desire to escape their allure.
Ready for the Christmas story (10/6/03)
It’s getting about time to start on the annual Christmas story. I wimped out last year and didn’t write one. I think one of the most difficult parts to writing the story is that it must be begun when I am thinking more about ghosts and pumpkins than presents and …
Lady bug ... fly away (10/13/03)
Lady bug, lady bug, fly away home. Your house has burned down and your children are gone.
Missing Halloween (10/27/03)
I miss Halloween. This is the only place I have lived where I don’t celebrate the holiday. I don’t celebrate it because the first few years we lived here we had less than five youngsters visit the house. There were 10 or 20 adults who rang the doorbell. I don’t …
Put in your 'two cents worth'
It’s almost election day. Do you vote? I do. I vote because it is the best way I know to put in my two cents worth. The only problem is that my vote seems to be the kiss of death for a candidate. I always vote for the loser. It …
Looking at a parade of homes (11/17/03)
One of my readers asked me where I was from. At the risk of boring you to death, I’ll tell you. I was born in Dayton, Ohio. When I was 4 years old somebody got the brilliant idea to build Interstate 75 on top of our garage. Our house sat …
Holidays start with crash (12/1/03)
I have broken my first Christmas decoration of the year. A reindeer smacked a Santa snow globe and shattered it. I have no idea what the reindeer had against Santa, but I swear it smirked when the glass broke.
Plans go awry
Once again my timing is impeccable. The weather has been great for the last few weeks. The forecasters are calling for six inches of snow tonight. This would be fine except for one thing - I have made plans to go to my mother’s this weekend and help her prepare …
Giving up a good visit (11/24/03)
We are breaking with tradition this year. For quite awhile now we have been traveling to Texas for Thanksgiving. I look forward to it all year as it is usually the only time I get to see my daughter. This year we are staying home. We went to Texas in …
A classy good-bye (10/20/03)
Doctor Timmins blew a kiss to Mary Alice and told her he loved her. Suddenly she was enveloped in the most intense love she had ever experienced. Light filled the room as her husband passed on to the afterlife. His wife said it was the most beautiful thing she had …
Kids can be great teachers (12/15/03)
“Are you gonna lie?” my seven-year-old nephew asked me when I told him I broke Mom’s bird cage. I thought it was interesting that it was his first reaction. He didn’t ask how I broke it or even note that his grandmother would be mad. Instead he asked me if …
Only three more days
It’s only a few more days until one of my favorite days of the year. Most of the preparations have been done. The packages have been mailed and once again I vow to send cash next year. I almost choked when the guy at the post office rang up a …
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