Text from Boy #2: Would you guys try really hard not to swear when we come over Sunday? My text back: Did you swear in front of my grandson...

What the hell is that? I put the dog out this morning and noticed my light post was more crooked than usual. So I tried to fix it. It looks ...

Northeast Ohio is in need of a good rain. Today the heavens opened up and poured down on us. But it waited for me to bring in my groceries w...

Dangling from my shower ceiling a Daddy Long Legs decided to scare the living crap out of me just as I started washing my hair. Panic set in...

Explaining my absence from blogging will take too long. Let's just say I got side tracked volunteering my time and I'm technically c...

My dearest Nyquil, You wonderful, magical, green elixir of slumber juice. I love you. At the moment I felt the plague creep into my body I ...

When I came home from shopping today I grabbed the mail. There was a package in there. Huh. I didn't remember ordering anything. I deduc...

I'm challenging myself, so writer friends, don't freak out. I haven't been writing. I could go into a whole litany of excuses bu...

"Are you making fun of Russian people?" "Absolute.......ly not. I love Russians and vodka. The Russians invented Vodka didn...

     Daddy don’t let go, please don’t let go. My arms wrapped around my fathers neck and I willed him to take me home. I could feel his...

If I could have, if my home owners association would have let me, I would have bought a cow when the boys were young and let it graze i...

Or just FIRE! My WalMart was on fire. I had just started shopping when I saw smoke. I thought to myself, "WalMart you never disappoint...

I've been keeping my eye on the Russians since 2010. It's hard to believe, time does fly. I let my guard down last year, I got lazy...

Spring has sprung in Northeast Ohio. The birds are singing, the flowers are in bloom and my mother is like a wide eyed child at Christmas. F...

Is this some kind of record setting allergy season? Some kind of banner year, an urban legend? A year where the official pollen count is off...

I shall explain my post before you read any further. Women's magazines are going to be banging my door down and begging me to write for ...

For the last week or so, maybe longer, maybe less because I'm really not sure what day it is and I'm almost certain it is October bu...

In the late summer of 2014 I stood in my kitchen making sauce. A cool, yet gentle breeze ruffled my curtains, the husband was watching colle...

Last month on FaceBook I penned a post about a spider web in my car. With that glaring evidence I deduced that a spider was living in my car...

I post this every year and hope that some day I won't have to any more. September 12, 2001, I walked down my steps and opened t...