Does “Ramirez” sound like “Miriam” to you? Before you get all judgmental, get yourself pregnant, get yourself as sick as I am, do a lot of walking you aren’t fit to do (at least not today, apparently) (I wrote that yesterday) so your head is spinning like a hyperactive top, plant yourself on a chair [...]
Not by me, though. I’d kill the darn thing, plus I’d fall off, and then bad things would happen. I was the brave soul who led the petting of the sheep, however. Just to keep up tradition, I told it I was pregnant, and G and/or my non-baby brother said, pretending to be the sheep, [...]
Here’s my executive summary. Got no energy for the sort of picturesque essays I composed last year. Once again, my tenses are all over the place, past, present, and everything in between. I don’t know why I do this. Just remember, I know I’m doing it, and I could fix it if I wanted to, [...]
You thought I’d forgotten to finish my vacation wrap-up, didn’t you? No such luck.
So when we last left our heroes (a.k.a. my family), they were swimming until 11 PM in a hotel in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Why were they staying in Carlisle, Pennsylvania? Duh – because we were going to Hershey Park the next day (Thursday). [...]
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Greetings from home. I wanted to post from our various stops along the way home, such as Terre Haute, Indiana; Columbus, Ohio; Zanesville, Ohio; Wheeling, West Virginia; and Carlisle, Pennsylvania, but it wasn’t to be. So instead, here’s a picture from Terre Haute, Indiana:
That, of course, is my son, and he is peeking through a [...]
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We just saw Mary Poppins. The show, not the person. Not the movie either, though my parents do own a copy. I mean we saw the show, like, the Broadway one, only it wasn’t on Broadway, it was at The Fabulous Fox, here in St. Louis, MO. The Broadway show is on tour, see, and it toured [...]
[Ed note: I started writing this much, much earlier today.]
Got me another teeth-clenching headache. Stress, you say? What is this stress of which you speak?
The cool part is that this appears to be equal opportunity stress. Clearly it isn’t taking its cues from most of the job postings I see, which reek of discriminatory hiring [...]
Greetings from Cave City, Kentucky.
First I would like to announce that I’ll be moving to Kentucky, ASAP. I’ve become extremely fond of Kentucky over the years, and I’m pretty sure the time has come for me to throw in my lot with the Kentuckians. They’ve got tons of horses, see. Sooooo many houses we’ve passed have had [...]
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You know the thing with 9 Av? It isn’t Shabbos. So although you can’t exactly do anything, either because you aren’t allowed (laundry) or because you’re fasting so you need to conserve your energy (shopping, mopping, packing), you ARE allowed to plan. You’re allowed to plan, and plan, and plan. Especially if you’re leaving for a three-week [...]
