5 Things that you miss about your daily commute. I contemplated leaving this page blank because there is nothing I miss about commuting. I did tens of thousands of miles of long distance commuting. Audiobooks were an outgrowth of the… Read More ›
Transportation
DELIVERING THE GOODS
We have already spent a lot of time talking about USPS and voting and all that, but we haven’t gotten to our favorite amusing anecdotes about UPS and Fedex. Each has its own cute and funny methods or not getting… Read More ›
WHERE’S MY STUFF? – Marilyn Armstrong and Rich Paschall
I know this isn’t the sexiest subject on the Internet, but this morning, I had to explain to my furniture store from whom — at the beginning of June — we ordered a new loveseat. The one we sit in… Read More ›
CURSE OF THE LEISURE CLASS.
Once upon a time in a life long ago, I worked hard. I don’t know if you could call it overworked. I never felt I had more work than I could do — if only they would let me get… Read More ›
SENDING AND RECEIVING STUFF – RICH PASCHALL
The Supply Chain and You – Rich Paschall This is about more than the amount of toilet paper you can get the next time you go shopping if you can get any at all. This is about all the other… Read More ›
START YOUR ENGINES PLEASE! – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything with a Motor or Engine I probably have a lot of engines in my folders, but they are all in folders by month and year, which makes locating them pretty difficult. I do, however,… Read More ›
BEST FRIENDS FOR AN AFTERNOON – Marilyn Armstrong
It has nothing to do with hooking up or any other kind of sex. It has to do with becoming the closest of friends with a complete stranger for one afternoon, then never seeing him or her again. One year,… Read More ›
ON THE ROAD AGAIN – Marilyn Armstrong
Not a rainy day nor a sunny one. Just a day. Cold, no snow or rain. Coming home from Connecticut. Feeling better about the world. Good thing I had a camera. Traffic was mostly bumper-to-bumper from when we left the… Read More ›
TRYING TIMES FOR TRAVELERS – Marilyn Armstrong
We almost never travel these days. The last time we stayed in a hotel was when we went to a wedding in Boston. We made the pricey decision to stay overnight in a nice hotel, or at least the nicest… Read More ›
A WALK IN THE WOODS: A SYMBOLIC JOURNEY WITH PICTURES – Marilyn Armstrong
There used to be a game we played. Not so much a game as a mental imaging exercise. I originally heard it in the 1960s when I was in college. I was told it wasn’t psychology, but rather drew on… Read More ›
OUR END OF SUMMER – BY ELLIN CURLEY
Summer has a different meaning to Tom and me than it does to most people. We are boaters, so to us, summer simply means ‘boating season’ and it lasts for six months. We start getting our boat ready to go… Read More ›
DERAILING ARE US – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Yes! We Derail! I moved to Massachusetts in 1988, one year after returning from Israel. Garry and I already had a “thing” and I thought he would collapse from exhaustion if he kept driving back and… Read More ›
