We're definitely having an early Spring. It's not surprising, since temperatures have already topped 80 degrees several times this...

Sometimes on Sundays I stare at the screen for thirty minutes before I write a single word. I'm just too tired. I went to the gym righ...

Nothing works anymore. Our security light went out last night. When the electrician replaced the fixture a few months ago with a new LED lig...

I like big, round numbers like 2400. I'm only 100 days away from the halfway point of this journey. I wonder if I'll be able to co...

I treated the yard for mosquitoes today. It's too early to tell whether the spray treatment works, but the entire yard now smells like...

The mosquitoes are terrible this year. I must have been bitten a dozen times while we were walking the dogs this morning. Mosquitoes alway...

My bank sent me one of those new credit cards with a chip in it. At first I didn't think the card was real, since it was completely f...

The garbage truck didn't pick up my trash this morning. My can was lined up on the street, just like all the other cans, but the truck...

On Saturdays we make lists. There are groceries to replenish. Sometimes we need furnace filters. Other times its light bulbs. Clothes get ...

The holiday weekend is getting off to a good start. Miraculously, the dogs let us sleep in a little this morning. Even though we got up la...

Things are looking up. The U-verse technician was already out in the alley working on the line when we took the dogs on their morning walk...

I went to Home Depot while Janet was watching Dot to stock up on furnace filters, drain cleaners, plungers, light bulbs and other mundane ...