I need a phone detox

I need a phone detox. No, really. I do. I was working in my office (thanks to the great decluttering office cleanup) on my computer which I love and hadn’t used since August of 2012 and got reacquainted with it this past weekend, and as I was finishing up, I...
A Bad Week for My Hand

A Bad Week for My Hand

Saturday a week ago, I tested for my red belt with black stripe in my self-defense class. One of the things we were tested on was board breaking with knife ridge hand technique. I was nervous the board wouldn’t break and I didn’t want to embarrass myself,...

Squirrel!

Last year, we spent a lot of money having ten pine trees removed from our backyard. Some of the benefits of having that done include no longer having to deal with pine allergies and pine needles everywhere including clogging the gutters. And the big one for...

Horrible Nightmare

I’m one of those people who doesn’t usually remember their dreams. In fact, it’s a very rare thing for me to remember a dream I had. Sometimes I might remember some kind of impression, but that’s about it. This morning, I woke up from a...

I blame the worms

This past week has been something else. Last Wednesday, little one studied worms in his science class and got to bring home a bin with three red worms (earthworms). There were leaves, shreds of newspaper, etc. for the worms. The key here being that I brought worms...