Mike, my SO (Significant Other), made a Christmas list and I’m checking it twice. Hurricane high speed steel ½-inch bowl gougers, 40/40 grind set up block, and a Savannah tool turning angle gauge topped his list with segments of birdseye maple, spalted blackwood, and mansonia as minor players. I’m checking it twice because I wouldn’t… Continue reading Checking It Twice
“You’re a pessimist,” said Mike my SO (Significant Other). “If you were more of an optimist, you’d recognize that my pessimism is actually helpful,” I countered. Mike retreated to his bunker deftly traversing what he perceived as boobytrapped logic. There he engaged in online battles with fellow game players. The fallout from those encounters didn’t… Continue reading A Fine Kettle Of Fish
The message delivered dread and foreboding as well as timely news. A new cable box is available memo highlighted on the screen appeared in a cheery blue oval mimicking a WELCOMED communique. I clicked on it using my perfectly fine, but outdated remote, to reveal the parameters of this change. I needed to switch out my… Continue reading Remotely Successful
“The milk is sour, Anita,” said Mike as he spooned Nestle’s Original Coffee Mate into his coffee. Crying Over Spilt Milk The dairy members of our refrigerator community had become passive aggressive. We abandoned them during our eight-day Florida vacation and they had turned on us. The bottom third of the 2% Prairie Farms Milk… Continue reading The Perishable Plan That Perished
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” The witty Erma Bombeck or the perky Edith Bunker or the CEO of ReaLemon may have coined that adage, but if you do so you are missing a prime opportunity of getting even with life. The recommended behavior of juicing those lemons is too passive for me. Lemons,… Continue reading Lobbing Back Life’s Lemons
A Few Choice Words By Anita 