AS I SEE IT
Thoughts of hibernation (12/29/03)
Christmas is over for another year. I hope Santa was as good to you as he was to me. It seems like the jolly old elf gets better every year at giving me things I really like. Either that or I get easier to please.
Flunking as a grandma
I am a failure in my new role as a grandmother. I missed the kid’s birthday. To be fair, I honestly did e-mail him a card that was set to arrive at the proper time. The problem was that I told the computer to send it on the wrong date. …
Listen to the voice in your head (1/5/03)
This time she listened to the voice in her head. Something told her to check the patient’s blood sugar even though all the other hospital personnel insisted that the patient wasn’t diabetic.
Beauty of spring in January (1/26/04)
“How do you get them to grow like that?” asked the pretty blond girl who delivered that mid-winter delight known as Girl Scout cookies.
As reliable as any (2/2/04)
Today is Groundhog Day. It marks the halfway point between winter and spring. As cold as it has been lately, any groundhog that voluntarily comes out of his hole now is likely to be insane.
Gifts still trickling in (2/16/04)
The presents are still arriving for my birthday. That is one good thing about raising a daughter who is as chronically late about sending gifts as I am. Packages tend to dribble in for the better part of a month. It took me most of my lunch hour to unearth …
Eat chocolate while you can (2/24/04)
Quick, eat some chocolate while it is still good for you. Did you hear the latest nutrition news? It seems that now chocolate is beneficial to your health. Supposedly, chocolate helps block free radicals that damage our arteries.
Pleasure's in the waiting
February is over at long last! What a relief to be done with the worst of winter. March may get cranky and downright nasty but at least we are treated to the occasional beautiful day. Somehow that makes up for all the bluster.
A message for us all (1/19/04)
Today is the day we have set aside to honor Martin Luther King Jr.
Plenty to celebrate in March
Tomorrow is Organize Your Home Office Day. This assumes you even have a home office. Most people I know have a home office that consists of various heaps of paper and unopened envelopes buried beneath magazines and hobby stuff.
Who knows what will come? (3/15/04)
My daughter was recently told that she will get pregnant soon and will have a baby girl. An elderly lady who was patiently waiting to be taken care of in the emergency room noticed Beth as she hurried down the hall to care for another patient. The woman asked her …
A lime saves the day (2/9/04)
The good news is that my daughter’s niece is no longer hexed. The bad news is that she hasn’t been baptized yet so there is a still possibility that someone could give her the evil eye and hex her all over again.
When life is too fickle to reflect on its fickleness (03/22/04)
I was intending to do a nice little column on how fickle March is. I meant to throw in something about how our bird of paradise plant is spectacular in bloom, even more so than the photographs I’ve seen. And about how it blooms a little at a time, a …
They're not for everyone (4/12/04)
I can tell that my husband still loves me after all these years. He brought home a present for me yesterday – a big sack overflowing with green onions. They were donated by the father of one of his co-workers. I consider green onions to be a healthy form of …
Grandparents a safe haven (3/29/04)
According to a story I read recently on the CNN web site, five of our planets will be “arrayed across the evening sky in a spectacular night show that won’t be back for another three decades.” Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn should be easily visible after sunset somewhere above …
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