When I wasn’t looking, some words disappeared - like haberdasher. In 1960 we stopped needing a name for someone who sells men’s hats. That’s when John F. Kennedy went hatless to his inauguration. That’s when men stopped wearing hats. When women went to work in a man’s world, they stopped wearing hats…
Does The Shoe Fit?
Posted by on November 17th, 2007 in Humor · 0 CommentsThey say you don’t know someone until you walk a mile in his shoes. If you walked a mile in mine, you’d have to walk in heels. I’m more comfortable in heels than flats - usually.
My luggage was lost when my husband and I went to Costa Rica. Lost luggage wasn’t a surprise…
Who Put The "Ow" In Wedding Vow?
Posted by on November 17th, 2007 in Humor · 0 CommentsWho knew the "for better or for worse" part of my wedding vows would get better and better? When you’re opposites, one spouse supposedly balances the other. I don’t think so. If you’re deaf, it affects your balance…
Shouldn’t There Be A "C" In Glasses?
Posted by on November 16th, 2007 in Humor · 0 CommentsMen don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses - well, they didn’t until eyeglasses became a fashion statement. Now people spend hundreds of dollars on designer frames.
Designer frames are a status symbol. They’re for others to see you can afford them - but they’re not for me…
UCSC Treesitting Protesters Barking Up Some Really, Really Big Redwood Trees
Posted by on November 16th, 2007 in Humor · 0 CommentsIt had to happen sooner or later on what is considered the most beautiful campus in the United States. With a population of over 20,000 and more coming, the University of California at Santa Cruz has to build some additional parking. That’s because many of the streets on Westside Santa Cruz now require residential permits…
How Your Collective Thinking is Destroying Your Mind, Career, Personal Life and Hippocampus
Posted by on November 15th, 2007 in Humor · 0 CommentsYou know who you are. You’ve turned over your locus of self control for the collective good. You’ve given up your mind and soul for others. You have adopted the standards and norms that are acceptable to many people some of the time. You have in fact, dumbed down…
2008 Election Proving Once Again the USA is the Greatest Nation in the Entire Universe
Posted by on November 15th, 2007 in Humor · 0 CommentsAt least on this planet, the USA is considered the leading democratic nation and by many scorecards the hands down numero uno country in the world. What the rest of the world is finally beginning to understand is that we in the U.S…
Whatever Happened To…?
Posted by on November 14th, 2007 in Humor · 0 CommentsWhatever happened to the past seven or eight hours? That’s what I ask myself when the alarm clock goes off. Because I feel like I just closed my eyes, it’s hard to believe it’s time to get up. Maybe I should make myself wake up during the night so I can appreciate having been asleep…
Are Doors Open For Discussion?
Posted by on November 12th, 2007 in Humor · 0 CommentsFront doors say as much about who lives in a house as names on mailboxes do. Natural wood, for example, says casual and unpretentious - unless the owners of the house have been married for so long they’ve gotten used to the weather-beaten look…
The Year The Rats Came
Posted by on November 10th, 2007 in Humor · 0 CommentsSometime during my sixth grade year, the rats came. We had a rat infestation. An unhealthy rat plague! I recall this as one of the most frustrating years of my mother’s and my life. Let me whine again about those rats!..