I'm convinced that waiting for service technicians must be one of the circles of hell in Dante's Inferno. No matter when you sched...

I find dealing with money very frustrating these days. People want to pay me less than they did ten or fifteen years ago, while the cost o...

I was listening to the TED Radio Hour on the way to the gym this afternoon and the topic was Abraham Maslow and his Hierarchy of Needs. Th...

Wouldn't it be nice if there was someone you could call who always had the answers you were looking for? I'm continually faced wit...

I returned like a prodigal son to my original Friday restaurant and was pleasantly surprised to see that they'd added several new item...

I knew today was going to be a problem. The HVAC guy wanted to come out at 8 AM to service the air conditioner. 8 AM is when the dogs norm...

The electricians came today. So, how many electricians does it take to change a light bulb? In the past, it has taken as many as three. To...

Today was Dash's day. Dot spends so much time at the vet that it's easy to forget that Dash has his own issues. We try to address ...

I hate feeling helpless. Dot continues to grow weaker and there is very little I can do at this point. I've tried everything I possibl...

My Mom has been gone so long now that many memories are starting to fade. When she was alive, the medical community wasn't very famili...

I dutifully took my pictures of the bathroom faucets up to the plumbing showroom this morning and showed them to the staff. They had hundr...

It drives me crazy when stuff breaks all the time. I called the electrician today to fix a broken sodium vapor light in the back yard. The...

It's kind of two steps forward, three steps back with Dot. She has an amazing ability to rebound, but at the end of the day, we're...

Dot had another setback today. When we were returning from our physical therapy session, she started yelping like she was in pain. I pulle...

We woke up to sunshine this morning. The weather has become just as unpredictable as Dot's pooping schedule. I was delighted that thun...

What was I thinking? Yesterday, I was convinced that the weather would be nice this week, so imagine my surprise when I woke up and discov...

We slept in late this morning. By the time we took the dogs on their morning walk, the sun was already high in a bright blue sky. It was a...