Crazy Cat Lady

I have two cats: Alvin and Simon. There will be no Theodore, as two is quite enough. Actually, two is way, way more than enough, if the second one turns out to have Simon’s rambunctious and quirky personality. Simon could be the feline poster child for ADD. Whereas...

Techo-headaches

Remember the good old days, back before we were so hopelessly dependent upon computers for the majority of our communications? … Yeah, me neither… So when my iMac, just two months out of warranty, randomly started flickering, the screen intermittently dimming for a...

August 1: The Weight Report

There’s a lot to be said for “accountability.” You tell someone about your target goal, even in confidence, and presto-chango! suddenly there’s someone out there who will know, and I mean beyond-a-doubt KNOW that you dropped the ball if you decide, for whatever...

Make an ‘H’!

I snuggled down inside my sleeping bag near the embers of the campfire and listened to the adults talking nearby. At 12, I was the oldest of the grandkids, so I felt it my duty to eavesdrop until I fell asleep. “If we had gotten the first cutting in the barn before...

Caddyshack, Revisited

Carl Spackler is the greenskeeper for an elite golf course. In “Caddyshack,” released on July 25, 1980, poor Carl tries everything imaginable, from flooding to dynamite (and then some) to rid the fairway of one particularly deranged dancing gopher. Exactly 33 years...