Right now...*  * ( an occasional (mostly monthly) meme , alternating from time to time with " The Current "). (Explanation of how ...

Last weekend's Globe & Mail had a really interesting -- and intelligent -- article  (" Baby boomers are adjusting to a new reti...

Good grief -- I got a few spam comments recently & went into my spam folder to see if there were any more. There were 14 (!!) dating bac...

I've been thinking some more about the New York Times article I cited in a recent odds & ends post :  " I Fantasized About Mul...

It's the first day of spring!  :)   And last week's time change ( = "spring forward" an hour) has been kicking my butt. :p...

Little Great-Nephew is sick -- again, for the second time within the past month. :(  His mom sent his dad (Older Nephew) a pathetic little v...

It's the first day of school here (for most kids, anyway)... and for the FIRST TIME (that I can remember, anyway), alongside the numbing...

I'm enjoying something very rare for me these days: a few hours of "me time," alone, at home.  It's BIL's birthday; he...

I mentioned on Facebook recently that I hadn't been in a Starbucks since the pandemic hit last March. A friend (who lives in a different...

 All day yesterday, I kept looking for Mel's Friday blog roundup. I usually read it on my phone as I'm eating breakfast -- but it wa...

Annoying things:  Still spotting. :p  (Going on four weeks now.) And feeling vaguely PMS-y, and tired.  Both dreading & looking forward ...

Mel posted about the coronavirus , and how hard it is to know just how worried we should be. I thought I would expand a bit on my (already o...