With another Halloween behind us, I will confess I never much liked the spooky celebration. Even as a child, I wasn’t crazy about it. Trailing up to the neighbors’ doors, wearing a sheet over my head and holding out a sack for treats just didn’t seem like a fun way to spend a cold (always), […]
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I’ve been adopted. A little homeless kitty has taken to darting around our house, in and out of the bushes and, one memorable time, parading back and forth in the long window box outside the porch. I was sitting on the porch reading when a gray tail waved at me – the rest of her […]
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I’ve written before about my love for football. My sister and I grew up hearing our dad’s tales of playing for Algona High and then Notre Dame. We loved his stories of being on the Knute Rockne-coached team with the famed Four Horseman in the 1920s. Later (obviously!) I married a football player whose love […]
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All five of our children came home for the Labor Day weekend. The gang also included one spouse and one grandchild. They flew in from California or motored down from Minnesota or up from southern Iowa, depending, of course, on their respective away-from-home locales. To me, away from home will always denote where they live […]
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Some of you may remember that last August, I wrote about a bat that came swooping into the TV room upstairs, sending me into paroxysms of panic. (I don’t think I’ve ever used the word paroxysms before, but it has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?) When my mother and dad lived here, […]
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California has a lot going for it. Namely, it has three of our offspring living there, as well as their three amazing spouses and, of course, two top-of-the-line grandchildren. What it doesn’t have is a postal service that is even close to adequate. Case in point: We once mailed a large box filled with wrapped […]
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Watch for a new book, by Scott MacDonald, Think Like a Dog, due out in 2017. Scott’s book, Saving Investa, is available on Amazon.com now.
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Please take a moment to also visit The San Diego Union-Tribune where this article was originally published.
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Once again, I have planted some hostas. Some meaning about a thousand. It’s not that I’m particularly crazy about hostas, it’s just that in our yard we have lots of shade trees. Shade trees and grass are enemies, thus there are lots of bare spots in our yard. Lots. Huge ones. And each spring, the […]
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Our five offspring, in addition to being the Medicine-and-Food-Expiration-Date Police, are also the Only-Healthful-Ingredients-Allowed-in-Food-and-Drink Police. Case in point: They roll their collective eyes at my preference for Miracle Whip on my peanut butter sandwiches. “Mom, Miracle Whip isn’t even food – it’s all chemicals!” Then there are their reactions to my choice […]
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