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Soul Searching at Starbucks I was going to write about quotation marks today, but since beginning that post, I’ve been interrupted a few hundred times and can’t seem to wrap my brain around my original message. Which wasn’t rocket science. Mostly, I was going to say that commas belong inside quotation marks. As in, “Let’s talk about quotation marks,” […]  Let me count the ways. Downton Abbey cast 1. Finish watching season one of PBS’s Downton Abbey. This shouldn’t be too hard. I only have one episode left. Then to keep current, I will pick up season two at Tar-gggay (French for Target). Shirley MacLaine joins the cast as Cora’s mother, the same Shirley MacLaine […]  You know when you are standing in the bathroom, blow-drying your hair, and suddenly you have this flash of inspiration for a blog post. But you don’t want to set the blow dryer aside, especially if a good hair day is evident. Then there’s make-up to apply, a bed to make and clothes to put […]  For many years, I was a little sad and wistful whenever Father’s Day rolled around because inevitably, there was some article in the newspaper that celebrated a bunch of dads doing ordinary things for their families every day. My dad was sort of ordinary, at least for a while. He built ice rinks in the […]  There was a time I’d get excited when the phone rang, especially if it was my best friend, Sue, calling with juicy details of some high school cheerleader’s romance gone south. Granted, that was before anyone knew to use “cell” and “phone” in the same sentence. These days, there is no excitement when the […] |
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