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The Good Wife Guide
December 16, 2012
The Ladies’ Homemaker Monthly , a popular journal that began about 100 years ago, provided women with rules to live by. Their motto was “You can judge a good woman by how many well-dressed children she has and the contentment of her husband.” The Good Wife Guide: 19 Rules for Keeping A Happy Husband is […]
Ana, You Have No Gag Reflex!
April 24, 2012
Let us start with a confession: When I wrote my scathing and witty series on The Fifty Shades of Grey books, an astute reader/fellow blogger commented by providing what she felt was the best quote in the book. Since then, this Sesquipedalian Songstress of Syntax has been trying to find a post to write in […]
When House Guests Invade
April 9, 2012
We have house guests this week. Having house guests is a unique opportunity, not only to tidy things up around the house, but to see our surroundings through new eyes and to deeply appreciate the fact that we have created a truly charming, inviting, and sometimes downright creepy environment. When we look carefully, we see […]
Man: 0 Cat: 1
November 4, 2011
(The following is the second in my new series, “Old Posts to Dredge out on Slow Weekends Because When I Posted Them Originally People Cared More About the Economy and World Peace Than My Blog.” Although nothing has changed, it’s the start of a slow weekend.) Now Husband Dan has a long history with pets. This […]
Married to Mr Transportation
April 26, 2011
Now Husband Dan is thoughtful, physically affectionate, and never ends a phone call without saying “I love you.” For the last week, we have been living about 20 minutes away from each other and communicating mostly via phone. I have been on Anna Maria Island, helping Joyce. Dan has been in our trailer mobile home […]
Dr Zhivago was a Mere Innocent
February 1, 2011
I checked weather.com last night and saw the following blaring headlines: “Impending storm will cover half of the country! Storm will break all records! 100 million people will be impacted by this violent, destructive storm!” This morning was no better: “Historic blizzard and ice storm underway at this exact moment in the Midwest!” I turned […]
What 5 Inches Really Means
January 28, 2011
In case any of you have been living behind my washer and dryer with an assortment of my missing socks and underwear, you might not know that DC just had a five inch snowfall on Wednesday. Traffic police in the area were immediately diverted from directing traffic to riding around in big official-looking trucks. This […]
Finding My Future in A Trashcan
January 1, 2011
One of the great ah-ha moments of my life began with the sight of small pieces of a photo in the trash can in the driveway of my marital residence. At first, what I was looking at made no sense to me. I recognized the photo, one taken by my husband, of me on a […]
Turning A Life-Threatening Emergency into Something Bad
April 11, 2013
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The other night, Life in the Boomer Lane came perilously close to joining her ancestors in the Big Shtetl in the Sky. The events were as follows: While having a conversation with her daughter, a virus and annoying cough she has been dealing with all week triggers a severe asthmatic reaction, resulting in LBL’s inability […]