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when I feel like volunteering for the witness protection program. How bad could North Dakota be?  

I noticed a soap wrapper in the waste paper basket in the bathroom when I got home this afternoon. Curious. It’s not that I don’t use soap. It’s that I don’t use that kind of soap anymore. And that there’s … Continue reading →

Not that I actually need anything lawyered, but I got it into my head that I needed to get my affairs in order last year, and there is a bunch of lawyers right down the hall from my office, so … Continue reading →

It was cancerette, really, just a tiny thing, just under my nose. It looked like a drop of lotion I hadn’t rubbed in well, about as big as a sesame seed. Don’t stop me if I’ve already told you this … Continue reading →

I haven’t finished painting the cabinets. They need another coat. I don’t even have a good excuse, particularly. I mean, I had to housesit the weekend after I put the first coat on, but it’s not like I was housesitting … Continue reading →

Today we are going to have a lesson in placing phone calls. Here are a few things we don’t say when the person at the other end answers the phone: 1. Who is this? 2. How you doing today? 3. … Continue reading →

A year or so ago, I had a friend(ish) who was a correspondent to another blog I keep. Many of his replies and posts were along the lines of people just don’t get me and people don’t like me and … Continue reading →

I was sitting at my desk, minding my own business, addressing an envelope to some reader who wanted an extra copy. Nothing strenuous or overly taxing, you understand. And then my head hurt. It didn’t hurt before that, but then … Continue reading →

What I did was I painted my kitchen cabinets. My kitchen cabinets were fairly new – maybe two years old. I picked them out and ordered them myself, in fact. But the color was…off. It wasn’t white and it wasn’t … Continue reading →