With the promise of summer floating like dandelion fluff on a soft breeze, I get gardening fever around April each year. By the end of May I’ve usually planted our vegetable garden, our assorted pots and planters, and thrown in a few new species of perennials for fun. I water those plant babies, feed them, and hack back any threatening… Read More
Lessons That Stick
I love it when a newspaper article evokes emotions. In fact, I love it that we still have big, floppy, spill your tea on, let the cat walk over the very paragraph being read, newspapers to read, but that’s a tangent for another day. Somewhere in yesterday’s Star Tribune there was an article written by a guy and dedicated to… Read More
Tagline
The paper rustled and waved in the whoosh of the door’s opening. Is that what made me look? I don’t know. Tacked to the workout facility’s community cork board, a humble sheet of paper commanded my attention and sweetened my heart. The 8 1/2 by 11 inch day changer was nestled in amongst business cards, objects for sale, and other… Read More
The Path Walked By A Goody Two Shoes
Sometimes you just know. I saw the young couple in the grocery store, walking arm in arm, acting nonchalant. And yet there was something about their body language that held my attention. I watched the woman veer off towards the bakery section of the grocery store while the young man browsed in the meat department. The woman’s eyes cut to… Read More
Ah, The Little Things
There is an old saying that I love— “It is the little things that do you in. You can sit on the head of a mountain, but you can’t sit on the head of a pin.†How often do we over-react to pet-peeves that are merely simple, little, non-consequential repetitive irritations? In my case, fairly often. I seriously try to… Read More
More Cholesterol Numbers Than Answers
In one of those strange timing events, just as I pushed the red start button on my iced tea maker the phone rang. I jumped. Of course I know the iced tea maker doesn’t ring, but geez, that was weird. The call was from my doctor’s nurse, Kelly. She cheerfully gave me the results of my blood tests from last… Read More
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