What Makes Me Laugh

Mmm … I love birthday cake! And if you had asked me six months ago whether I thought I would have cake or not on my birthday, I would have said, “not.” You see, after choosing to remove wheat, dairy, eggs, cane sugar, and other food allergy offenders from my diet because those foods make [...]

I remember when we moved in, oh, over six years ago, and SOMEONE saying, “This house is great. We don’t have to do anything to it!” Yeah, right. A new furnace and duct work, complete outside paint job, a full kitchen and bathroom remodel, all of the windows replaced, new doors, landscaping completed, numerous other [...]

This morning a friend texted me to say Merry Christmas and that she read David Sedaris’s essay “Six to Eight Black Men” to her younger brother today. This is my favorite holiday essay (surpassing even Santaland Diaries) and I cannot read it aloud without stopping to cry with laughter. Here’s a taste of the essay, [...]

Hey, so I’m back to blogging. Why? Because it feels good, and these days I’m trying to move with the feel good flow. And … the local radio station played my favorite Flight of the Conchords tune (It’s Business Time) on my way to work this morning and it reminded me that my favorite comedy show of [...]

When I arrived home from work last week Doug told me to “check the camera” for Cocoa’s daily adventure. High larious! I think the photos tell the story pretty well.

So, that was a short sabbatical, but I had to break it. I’ve been dying to write about food, which is better than dying because of food, which is the other option on the table for me. At the beginning of the month, I was diagnosed with Celiac disease (also known as Celiac sprue, which is where [...]

We’ve been preparing the garden and doing our own form of early summer weed whacking. Doug is our resident Zen master dandelion slayer, bending over good portions of the day to pull them by hand from the yard. If it were up to me they’d probably take over the yard, but Doug is persistent. Early [...]

It was 2 a.m. and after four hours of telling Doug that I would turn off my reading lamp, “in a minute” I was finally asleep. Just barely. I was in that dream state where the concepts of flying, friends from high school, the color purple, and cows all seem to come together in a [...]

Dear Whisper Yellow, It was love at first sight. There we were. In the hardware store. I was looking at Butter Cream, wondering if she was the one when I saw you and all thoughts of Butter Cream flew from my head. I knew, deep down, that you were the one for me. We brought [...]

Our extended family may not agree on religion, politics, or sports teams, but they can agree on one thing: “You need a new toilet.” Every family member who visits says this to us and we always have the same response: “We know.” It’s funny. I don’t remember noticing the toilet before we bought the house, [...]