In this pandemic year, filled with sadness and fear and prayers for it all to end, I find I can smile remembering past good times. To that end, I’m re-running an Inkspots Christmas column I wrote years ago, in hopes that it will spark similar happy memories for all of you. December 24, 1992 When […]
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I sort of jumped the gun on decorating for Christmas this year. As in, I put up the tree and all the trimmings a month ago, two weeks before Thanksgiving. Don’t judge. This year has been like no other, so it seems to me that anything goes. Anything, in this case, being early, very early, […]
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In the years I’ve been inhabiting this Inkspots space, I’ve written about 147 columns about our family’s past Thanksgiving holidays. I said “about,” so don’t lecture me on exaggerating, the about allows me to use any number I fancy. And today, I fancy 147 – it has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? […]
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For someone who has pretty much retired from cooking, I get an urge once in a blue moon to come out of retirement and make something tasty. Okay, to be honest, I never was much of a cook and I never especially liked doing it, so you can understand why, after years of feeding seven […]
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I had a fun travel companion last week named Flat Stanley. I had never heard of Flat Stanley but it turns out he’s quite famous. He’s had his picture taken with such well-known celebrities as Clint Eastwood and President Obama, to name just two. Now he’s had his picture taken with Seamus, Louis Kossuth, and […]
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There is a general belief that in the U.S., whoever gets the most votes wins the election. This is not true in Presidential elections because of the electoral college. President Trump received about 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton but still became President. But it has also not been true with state elections. Because […]
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There are many things I love about computers and cyberspace. F’rinstance, being able to FaceTime or Zoom with our scattered kids and grands is wonderful. Out of the blue, 6-year-old Molly will get loose on her Dad’s cell phone and FaceTime me, offering to give me a tour of her house. She always offers to […]
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I never liked children. I stay away from them when passing on the street and run away from them if they are off-leash on the beach. I don’t know why I do not like kids; Scott thinks I must have had a bad experience with a youngster when I was a little puppy. I don’t […]
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Seamus has come into my life – Hurrah! My house is no longer silent and empty of a welcoming dog – I now have Seamus to be my new love. I found him on the Petfinder website and immediately fell for him. He was living in a shelter in Clear Lake, having been transported there […]
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When I returned to writing an Inkspots column five years ago, after quite a long hiatus, it was for two reasons: I felt if I could make a few people smile, or even chuckle, that would help justify my taking up space on this planet; Bing had just died and I needed to fill my […]
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