Humor Where You’d Least Expect It
Essays in this category were originally posted to Nancy's first blog, "Pieces of My Mind". They've been moved here for preservation as the original website at NancyBabcockWrites.com has been taken offline.
How could I have been so dumb? Going to the grocery store on the day before Thanksgiving is definitely not an activity willingly chosen by the sane. So, now we know the state of my mind. A suicide mission, if there ever was one. At least I went early--and in my own...
I have transferred my phone service to Vonage. They sure have AT&T beat on price--especially if you want to call another country--let's say some place far off and exotic, like Canada. AT&T really socks it to you if you unknowingly call Canada, as I did and...
Since moving to California I've learned new things. Last night's lesson I won't soon forget. I've always balked at using "woman/women" in reference to me or anyone under the age of 85, even though for years now, that has been the politically correct term for females...
One nationally syndicated talk show host/psychologist has a favorite bit of advice that gets doled out on a regular basis, often in situations where a call-in client feels slighted or possibly taken advantage of--or feels that his/her actions might cause someone else...
When I lived on the East Coast, which was for much of my life until last year, I never had the feeling I was being watched, but that was only because I was ignorant. Now that I'm on the West Coast, I know better. This other half of the country has long range, high...
A long time ago I decided that baseball was not for me--way too boring, and way too much waiting around for something--anything--to happen. For me, the only good thing about the one major league game I ever went to, was eating hotdogs and catching up with a girlfriend...
Two years ago, just prior to moving to California, I wrote Prepared!, a column about my move and preparations for the drive across the country with four cats. In that column I spoke of my two mentors of preparedness--my late Aunt Chee, and my professional...
Suddenly planes are making the news--and not just because of those obscene delays with passengers trapped and going nowhere for 36 straight hours on a tarmac in Pittsburgh, in a scenario that might as well be a KGB plot set in Outer Mongolia for the lack of food,...
What happened to my brain? I was recently in Costco on a day when they were having more than the usual food fest and pushing samples of nearly every product in the food section with full-force abandon, resulting in a full-fledged feeding frenzy. Caught up in the...