Editor’s note: If you are an orthopedic surgeon, a surgical nurse, a sports medicine specialist or anybody else in the medical field, you might want to skip this story. You will want to edit my copy and rewrite most of it to sound like the New England Journal of Medicine which uses the correct terminology,… Continue reading I need a new knee
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How I survived Ghost Boot Camp
In case you haven’t noticed, Halloween is here. Actually, you’d have to be from another planet to not know this. We are in the midst of a month of skeletons in yards, pop-up retail with all the gruesome stuff you will ever need, and best of all — endless grocery aisles of miniature Twix, Snickers,… Continue reading How I survived Ghost Boot Camp
Right on Time: Christmas Card, Christmas Day
Merry Christmas 2020 In this year of many changes, here’s another change as our Christmas greeting switches from poetry to prose. Why? Well, for one thing, nothing rhymes with Covid. But I can tell you we lived through the same bizarre year as everyone else. Family Dinner becomes a thing. Of course, meal prep was… Continue reading Right on Time: Christmas Card, Christmas Day
Our POA meetings: No facts, no filters, lots of shouting
Our latest Property Owners Association meeting ended without bloodshed. But just barely. We were fighting mad about the agenda items: Open range. Shared well water. Rutted roads. City-dwellers with their wimpy HOAs have no idea how big a brawl you can have when you have no filters, no facts, and own lots of land. Mind… Continue reading Our POA meetings: No facts, no filters, lots of shouting
Generation Gap 2.0
I was 15 years old and easily embarrassed by my mother, the unflinching Sarah Gorby. Mom didn’t like hippies, or as she called them “feeble-minded freaks.” Any male with long hair was a hippie. The teen baggers at our grocery store were hippies if their hair was over their collar and thus Mom wouldn’t let… Continue reading Generation Gap 2.0
The Upstory 