I take a maximum load of blood pressure medications. “The full load,” my cardiologist once commented. Since then, I’ve managed to stop taking two of them. The rest, I’m stuck with. Earlier surgery for ulcers means I also take a… Read More ›
Household Stuff
YOU CAN’T MISS IT
Last night, I spent close to an hour looking for something that was exactly where it was supposed to be. It was on the correct shelf, right in front. Nothing was hiding it. It wasn’t behind something or turned the… Read More ›
IN THE STREAMING WORLD, EVERYONE OWNS A PIECE OF EVERYONE ELSE
So Garry wanted to get a show that’s a freebie if you sign up for a new installation of Starz. But we already have Starz, so while they might let you sign up, they won’t give you the teaser freebie… Read More ›
FRAGMENTATION
It wasn’t a bad day. More, it was a day when it’s over, you wonder if you accomplished anything. There were so many stops and starts and lots of phone calls and running up and downstairs … did I do… Read More ›
AND FINALLY, THE KITCHEN DOORS ARE SHINY AND NEW
Arthur Poisson, who has worked for us before, does beautiful work. When he is done with a job, it looks finished. He says his goal is when he’s done, it should look like it has always been that way …… Read More ›
THE JOY OF DUMPING IT
I have felt truly unwell for the past week or two. Really, it started with the abscess in my mouth and the two weeks on antibiotics waiting for the surgeon to pull the tooth. Then the dry-socketed tooth and the… Read More ›
DON’T THINK TOO HARD. IT’LL RUIN YOUR DAY — Marilyn Armstrong
THINKING CAN DECIMATE YOUR EQUILIBRIUM There’s a reason why I don’t always want to write about the things that make me crazy. First of, they are things that make me crazy and I figure I’m crazy enough without working at… Read More ›
HOW TO SPEND A DAY NOT BUYING AN OVEN – Marilyn Armstrong
I spent most of yesterday not buying a new countertop oven. Probably 7 or 8 hours were consumed looking at and deciding to buy it, then deciding it was too expensive, too cheap, not big enough, too many options I… Read More ›
BUYING YOUR HOUSE AGAIN – Marilyn Armstrong
After a lot of people suggested I get a UBS at least to deal with the router and modem, I went looking on Amazon and realized I don’t know anything about what I need. Nothing at all. I used to… Read More ›
ABOUT THAT TOILET PAPER – Marilyn Armstrong
I got really tired of the endless hunt for toilet paper, especially when you find some, they say you can have one roll. We have three toilets, so what do we do? Pass it around? I managed to get the… Read More ›
THE BIGGEST GLITCH – Marilyn Armstrong
Little things defeat me. An electrical blip — so brief as to go otherwise unnoticed — knocked out the time and date on the clocks and telephones in my house. It was so brief I didn’t realize it had happened until… Read More ›
NO GLOWING REVIEWS – Marilyn Armstrong
I’m on the Whirlpool mailing list. This is probably because we have a whirlpool washer. We got it (recently) second-hand, but somehow, we also got on the mailing list. I’ve left it alone because, among the many things we need,… Read More ›
THROWING IN THE TOWEL – Marilyn Armstrong
There’s a lot of news right now and it’s more personal than usual. One of the things I’m trying to find out is how infectious Worcester County is, but I can’t find out. We have no testing program so nobody… Read More ›
CORONAVIRUS TRENDS – BY ELLIN CURLEY
Most of the United States, and much of the rest of the world, are ‘sheltering in place’ because of the Coronavirus pandemic that has swept across the globe. This means that vast numbers of people are cooped up at home,… Read More ›
WORLD SHARING IN A TIME OF PLAGUE – Marilyn Armstrong
WORLD SHARING IN A TIME OF PLAGUE Questions: If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make them? Just because we learn from our mistakes doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to avoid making mistakes. Trust… Read More ›
HISTORY OF TOILET PAPER, PART II – BY ELLIN CURLEY
I recently wrote a blog about the history of toilet paper and the response was so enthusiastic, I decided to look further into the subject. Before toilet paper came into existence in 1857, people used leaves, moss, stones, corncobs or… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 