Lack of professionalism is one of my pet peeves.  So is a complete disregard for time.  Add those to a complete and utter lack of common courtesy and consideration for other people, and what you’ve got is a very disgruntled Dorothy.  In all actuality, though, I’m not even sure that term covers it.  I’m still [...]

Friday is my lucky day.  [I was, after all, born on one.]  But because my personal number is “4,” certain Fridays - those with dates that add up to that number; i.e., the 4th, 13th, 22nd and 31st - are luckier for me than others.   This has rung true for over five decades with nary a [...]

So…what happens when you slap a rebel-related moniker on a dog?  You get a rebellious dog, that’s what.  But the fact of the matter is that it never occurred to me that Mark would actually decide to name our dog, Dixie.  There were so many other great names to choose from:  Sophie, Isabelle, and Ebony, [...]

Dixieland - 2nd Installment…
I should’ve know that things were going to go awry the second I got off the phone with the folks at Happy Labs Rescue.  For starters, we had trouble deciding on a meeting place.  We discussed this place and that, and after much debate, we finally settled on Columbus, OH.   Then I had trouble finding a hotel [...]

 
For the last ten years or so, I’ve had a good life.  A wonderful life.  A life that most folks only dream about.  It includes Mark - my remarkable husband who cooks and cleans and loves me just the way I am, faults and all.  It includes travel to far away places, and lots of [...]