The Problem Is …

Thank heavens it's raining--and just when I thought I couldn't stand the suspense one minute longer. The Rain, as I have learned since moving to northern California eight months ago, is something to be reckoned with. Surprising, perhaps, in that none of that substance...

Did I sleep through Thanksgiving? Two weeks ago it was Halloween and according to my grocery store, already bedecked, the next holiday is Christmas. What happened to Thanksgiving? Do we still celebrate Thanksgiving? I would think that if we do, the grocery store's...

I thought we no longer had to worry about terrorists because The Birds were going to get us first. Should have listened to Alfred Hitchcock way back when. Now it's bird flu, of all things. Fact is, CNN needed something new to wear into the ground, and so they got it...

Having grown up in the northeastern United States, my idea of what was 'normal' in terms of climate was several degrees cooler than that held by people living in the southern half of this country. But I didn't know that then. My vision was so skewed to the lower half...

We've just done it again--put ourselves through that semi-annual ritual of confusing ourselves by somehow saving daylight--or the reverse. Un-saving daylight? Is any of this even possible? And whose daylight would we be saving and for what? Changing the clocks by one...

There are a lot of things I don’t get in this world, and yet so many of them are so prevalent, that I think something must be wrong with me. I find myself wondering about what everyone else seems to accept as normal or the obvious, when to me none of it seems that...

It only gets worse. First I found out that somehow overnight I had involuntarily and apparently become a Ma'am--at least in some people's eyes--although certainly not mine, of course. Lately I've found out that somehow I have also become--at least in some people's...

I used to wonder why when I left a message with a man, for someone else, that it never got delivered. I've had my suspicions, but now I know. It was on the Today Show, so it has to be true--and today what was on confirms the validity of a long held theory of mine....

We are there every day--some of us are there dozens of times every day. Where? Sitting through yet another of those most annoying red lights. Have you noticed how some are particularly long? I think there should be laws about that! No traffic light should be allowed...