Three Cheers for Chicken!

Three Cheers for Chicken!

I once was a school principal. And when I say, “once,” I mean for years and years. Hanging out with kids all day, trying to ensure they actually learned something, wasn’t exactly a picnic in the park. So, to all of you trying to homeschool your kids while locked...
Snots!

Snots!

Three weeks of social isolation and quarantine have been a mixed bag for those of us lucky enough to be well. Some of us are managing it okay (hey! I didn’t know I had so many different pajama combinations) and some of us, well, not so much (who keeps drinking all my...
Time Marches On!

Time Marches On!

The concept of time has always eluded me. Each of us has 24 hours a day, with 60 minutes in each hour, but now that I have retired, I’m even more perplexed. I wake up around 8 and go to bed around 10, meaning I have about 840 minutes of awake time. So where is that...
My Mother, Marie Kondo

My Mother, Marie Kondo

My mother was born too early. If she had been born in the right year, she would have given Marie Kondo a good run, tidying up everybody’s home, tossing whatever didn’t bring her joy. The problem is she might have tossed me or my brothers. Her name was Harmke, an old...
Launch Pad

Launch Pad

I decided to purchase a lift chair, now known as my launch pad, thinking it will alleviate pressure on my oh-so-aching knees. You know the one I mean: it’s a chair, that with the poke of a button, carefully lifts the butt from a sit to a stand. Voila!   Besides its...